The Delhi Police on Wednesday claimed that as per their investigation some outsiders were also involved in the chanting of “anti-national” slogans during the protest gathering in the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus. Despite of Supreme Court orders, these goondas, in black coats, attacked Kanhaiya, when there was a police contingent there.
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Delhi Police commissioner BS Bassi has said there was a lot of “jostling” and there was no option but to take Kumar through the crowd.
Referring to a news channel report, counsel Prashant Bhushan told the court that one reporter T Anwar has been beaten up at Patiala House court. Although, there was a huge security deployed for the protection, the police failed to protect a clash near the court premises.
“The teachers and the students of the JNU and the journalists had a right to be present in the court and its premises”. At least one reporter also said that the lawyers beat him and broke his cellphone while the police watched.
He was allegedly kicked and punched by the attackers.
Hundreds of police were deployed at the Patiala House court in Delhi ahead of Kumar’s appearance, after students, academics and journalists were attacked when they turned out to see him on Monday.
“I have said earlier too”.
The magistrate immediately ordered medical examination of Kumar by a team of doctors inside the court.
Several journalists were beaten up by a section of lawyers at the Patiala House Court here on Wednesday before JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar was to be brought there. Convicted of masterminding the 2001 attack, he was sentenced to death by the Supreme Court in 2005 and executed in 2013.
In the court, Kumar, referring to the incident of anti-India slogan shouting at a students’ meeting on February 9 for which he was being held, said he condemned it.
Meanwhile, Delhi University professor SAR Geelani was sent to two-days’ remand, while Delhi high court rejected a plea asking for the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to look into alleged anti-national activities on Jawaharlal Nehru University’s campus.
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Supreme Court-appointed team, including Kapil Sibal, Dushyant Dave and Rajiv Dhawan to witness the situation at Patiala House Court first hand.
