New Delhi: The report submitted by the Delhi police to Commissioner B S Bassi on the JNU row, was unable to prove that students on the campus had raised pro-Pakistan slogans.
The police report said that witnesses did not corroborate the claim that some students shouted ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ during the alleged pro-Afzal Guru march, according to Indian Express.
Delhi police had slapped a case of sedition against JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar on February 11 after obtaining the video clip of the event, from a television news channel.
Kumar was arrested on February 12, for making anti-India remarks at the event organised by a Leftist students' union to protest against the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru. Students of JNU have been maintaining that Kumar never raised such objectionable slogans.
However, the 12-page report filed by the police, which makes mention of 29 slogans raised by the students on the fateful night, does not include the slogan ‘Pakistan Zindabad’, a chant which had led to charges of sedition against the student leader.
The slogan however did find a mention on the report that was based on the video footage, which was allegedly doctored. A producer of the channel had claimed that the footage was tampered with and that the students had said ‘Bharatiya Court Zindabad’ and not ‘Pakistan Zindabad’.
“The slogans which were seen in the footage were anti-national, anti-constitutional, against the organs of the government and against the integrity of the nation. So much so, some of the students were shouting slogans as Pakistan Zindabad repeatedly,” the police report stated.
Some television channels aired shows to prove that the videos were doctored, putting in question the Delhi police’s move to arrest Kanhaiya.
The student leader from the start has claimed that no case is made out against him as there was no evidence as he had never raised any anti-national slogan during the event organised in the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on February 9.
Kanhaiya, who is in judicial custody till March 2, had approached the apex court directly seeking bail on the ground that his life was under threat in Tihar Jail.
