Hundreds of students forcibly stopped almost half a dozen trains in Bihar on Friday demanding the immediate release of JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar, arrested in Delhi on charges of sedition.
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The Commission said the copy of the NHRC inquiry report has been forwarded to the Delhi Police Commissioner and Director General of Prisons, Tihar Jail, seeking their comments by February 26.
On February 9, a few JNU students had organized a meeting to mourn and talk about the supposed “judicial murder” of Afzal Guru, the perpetrator of the 2001 attack on the Supreme Court.
“No fair trial possible in Patiala House Court”.
The lawyers, mostly from Patiala House and several other district courts, marched aggressively, around the India Gate circle, shouting slogans and waving the tricolour, in presence of heavy police security. “Environment is not conducive”, Kumar said referring to the violence by a group of men in black robes.
The varsity’s students’ union president Kanhaiya is in judicial custody in a sedition case over the incident.
The arrest of Kanhaiya Kumar last Friday over a rally at which anti-India slogans were chanted has provoked some of India’s biggest student protests in years amid concern over freedom of speech in the country’s universities.
During the hearing, which commenced at 3 pm, advocates Vrinda Grover and Sushil Bajaj, who appeared for Kanhaiya, told the magistrate that despite the Supreme Court direction, the police have failed to maintain the law and order as their client was assaulted inside court premises and even outside the door of the court room by the person.
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In the plea, he has also claimed that no case is made out against him as there was no evidence.
