While admitting that police have so far found “no evidence linking the lashkar-e-Tayyeba (leT)” (Pakistan-based terror group) to JNU incident, Delhi Police Commissioner BS Bassi claimed on Monday that JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar had raised anti-national slogans during the controversial event on the campus on February 9.
Bassi said the congregation organised against the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru was anti-national and unlawful. “Yes, he raised anti-national slogans,” he said when pressed on the issue.
“Kanhaiya was present at the event, where he delivered a speech and participated in an unlawful assembly which indulged in anti-India sloganeering. It was because of his involvement, and the evidence we have collected so far, that he has been arrested under charge of sedition,” Bassi said after meeting Home Minister Rajnath Singh.
“As and when it comes, it will be shared with the Home Ministry,” he said. The police chief said during Kanhaiya’s questioning investigators have gathered crucial information which will now be verified and processed.
“Kanhaiya’s interrogation will be analysed for terror links and police are looking for some other students who all went absconding after the incident but will soon be arrested,” he said.