JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar was sent to Tihar jail by a city court after his one day remand period was over on Friday. Kanhaiya, arrested on the charge of sedition and criminal conspiracy, was in the custody of the Delhi Police and was interrogated for around five hours with two other accused JNU students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya together for the first time at RK Puram police station in south Delhi in connection with the sedition case.
The court on Thursday had sent Kanhaiya to one day police custody after the prosecution said he was needed to be confronted with Khalid and Anirban in view of discrepancies in their statements regarding the controversial JNU event.
The questioning started in the wee hours on Friday and lasted for around five hours, before it resumed around 10.30 am.
During the first round of interrogation, Kanhaiya was confronted with Khalid and Anirban separately. In the second round, the three were grilled together, a police source said.
Kanhaiya has so far maintained that on February 9, he came out of his room only when he got to know about a possible confrontation between the two groups over the event inside the campus and has dissociated himself with the event, the sources added.
While Khalid has so far denied having indulged in any anti-national sloganeering, Anirban challenged claims that the slogans pointed out by police were anti-national in nature, the source claimed.
Also, police showed them raw footage of the video of the February 9 event to ascertain identities of others involved in it, especially whom the police had earlier termed as “foreign elements”.