The Delhi Police has identified around two dozen people who were actively involved in the event to commemorate the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru on February 9 on the JNU campus where anti-India slogans were raised.
Sources in police said a few of them are outsiders and their identities are yet to be established since they had covered their faces.
Their names surfaced during the joint interrogation of JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya conducted at a south Delhi police station on Friday.
“We have ascertained the identities of around 22 persons who were present in the crowd raising seditious slogans. We are likely to question them in the coming days,” said a police official, adding that further details about the identified persons are yet to be verified.
He further said police have so far been unable to identify four persons who had covered their faces with mufflers — all believed to be outsiders — who were spotted allegedly raising anti-national slogans at the event.
The investigators are now awaiting the report of JNU high-level committee’s report on the matter which will be the deciding factor whether the varsity’s Vice-Chancellor, who had withdrawn permission for the February 9 event, or other members of the committee will be listed as witnesses in the case, the source said.
Meanwhile, police have started preparing the evidence file of the case. The file includes the raw version of the video clip obtained from a news channel on the basis of which the case was registered, the letters of communication between police and the university authorities and the poster of the event, which police claim will help prove criminal conspiracy in connection with the matter, the source said.
Police officials said the documents seized are being sent a forensic laboratory.