Call records of two mobile numbers belonging to former JNU student leader Umar Khalid — believed to be the main organiser of the controversial February 9 event on the university campus, where alleged anti-India slogans were raised — have revealed that over 800 calls were made from his numbers to several places, including Jammu & Kashmir, Bangladesh and Gulf countries between February 3 and 9.
While 38 calls are said to have been made to J&K, a total of 65 calls were received on Khalid’s numbers from the northern State. The call details came to light after police intensified its search to track the former leader of the Democratic Students’ Union (DSU).
The source said the call details of Khalid's numbers for the past two months showed that the frequency of phone calls to these numbers had increased since last week of December, which is when the police suspect that the preparations for the February 9 event could have actually begun. A native of Maharashtra, call details of Khalid show his two numbers were on roaming 17 times in the past one month, with locations spanning across various cities. Preliminary investigations showed that during this period, Khalid had been meeting people at other universities to mobilise support for his event.
Source said most of the calls made to J&K from Khalid's numbers were to three particular numbers, while four to five calls were made to another number. While one number has been traced to an individual at the Central University of Kashmir located in Ganderbal, three other numbers belong to different persons.