Umar Khalid’s counsel calls on Delhi Police to ensure his “security”

The two have also disclosed about the location where they had taken shelter after February 9 incident which led to the arrest of JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar.

However, the court rejected the request, saying petitioners have the right to know why police has opposed the bail.

The High Court will tomorrow continue the hearing on the plea of the two accused, seeking security before they surrender in the court.

“The remand proceedings have to be done by a trial court and it (high court) can not go by their (the two petitioners’) whims and fancies”.

The police also filed a status report on its investigation as per the court’s direction and claimed that Kanhaiya had not only participated in the event where anti-national slogans were allegedly raised in the JNU campus but had “actually organised” the programme.

“The Registrar of the Delhi High Court and police should ensure that no ruckus, as happened in the past, should take place while the accused are being produced”.

Khalid’s lawyer Kamini Jaiswal told AFP the two men had made a decision to cooperate with police, who had issued a wanted notice for them at the time of Kumar’s arrest on February 12 and alerted airports to stop them travelling overseas.

The university students formed a human chain to prevent the media from following Khalid and Bhattacharya when they were leaving the campus on Tuesday evening. “We will ensure their security”, he said of the students, who are both in their twenties.

Brushing aside the apprehensions of some senior party leaders on debating the question of nationalism in Parliament, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi is adamant on challenging the BJP government over the ongoing unrest at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), a controversy that pitted left-leaning and centrist political forces against the rightwing formations.

According to The Indian Express, the slogan of the protests is “humein chahiye azaadi, hum chheen ke lenge” (We want freedom and we will snatch it). He said he didn’t try to solicit support from students of other universities.

The five students Umar Khalid, Anant Prakash Narayan, Ashutosh Kumar, Rama Naga and Anirban Bhattacharya returned to the campus on Sunday night.

Kanhaiya Kumar, the JNU student’s union president, was arrested earlier this month over the controversial event.