Meanwhile, a special court on Wednesday night remanded Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, who surrendered before police late on Tuesday night, to three days’ police custody.
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Earlier, the Delhi High Court ordered to “maintain confidentiality” during the remand proceedings of Kumar, Umar and Anirban and directed the police to ensure that no one “suffers even a scratch” and there is no ruckus this time.
The duo, who returned to the JNU campus last Sunday after having gone missing since February 12, drove from the administrative bloc to the main gate of the university, got into a Delhi Police vehicle and were taken to an undisclosed destination.
Lawyers had allegedly assaulted Kumar when he was brought to Patiala House Court for remand proceedings, in defiance of an Supreme Court order.
Meanwhile, the High Court deferred the hearing on the bail plea of JNU students’ union president Kanhaiya Kumar to February 29. Kanhaiya is now in judicial custody.
The police said it was conducting a probe regarding the persons and organisations which were behind such “non-educational activities in the campus and the object behind it in the larger national perspective”.
Bassi further said, Kanhaiya showed repentance on his part when he issued an appeal on the day he was produced before a court but later denied having issued any such appeal and made certain allegations which were “false”.
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As soon as the hearing on Kanhaiya’s bail plea commenced before Justice Pratibha Rani, Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Tushar Mehta told the court that police have a statutory right to take custody of an accused for 15 days and due to new developments Kanhaiya’s custodial remand is necessary.
