Another wanted student in the JNU sedition case has surrendered before the Delhi Police on Saturday. Ashutosh Kumar, a student facing sedition charges for allegedly raising “anti-India” slogans on the campus, joined the police investigation on Saturday. The police on Friday night asked Ashutosh to join the probe at RK Puram Police Station.
“Ashutosh, Rama Naga and Anant Prakash Narayan communicated to police a few days ago their intention to join the enquiry, gave their contact number and told police to call them whenever needed,” said Sucheta De, national president of All India Students’ Association (AISA), an organisation active in JNU.
She said police called Ashutosh on Friday night to come to the police station on Saturday morning. “So he has gone today (Saturday). We were never resisting.”
Police have already been interrogating JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar as well as two other students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya. Other two students, Rama Naga and Anant Kumar, are yet to receive any police summon. They had earlier written to police that they are ready to join investigation too.
All students, including Ashutosh, Rama Naga and Anant, are facing the charges of raising “anti-national” slogans in an event organised on the JNU campus on February 9 to commemorate the execution of parliament attack convict Afzal Guru. With that, police have identified around 22 people who were active participants in the controversial event, said police, adding Ashutosh, Khalid, Anirban and a few others are believed to be organisers of the event in which anti-national slogans were allegedly raised.