New Delhi: Kanhaiya Kumar, JNU Students' Union President, who has been arrested under sedition charges, was on Thursday sent to one-day police custody by a trial court.
Kanhaiya will be in jail for five more days as the Delhi High Court on Wednesday decided to hear his bail plea on February 29.
Kanhaiya was arrested in a sedition case on February 12 after an event held at the JNU campus against the execution of 2001 Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru.
In its 13-page status report filed before Justice Pratibha Rani, the police claimed that besides Kanahiya and other accused persons, some "foreign elements" were also present during the event on February 9 in JNU and they had covered their faces to hide their identity.
"During the course of the investigation, statements of various eye-witnesses, who were found present on the spot, were recorded. It has come during the course of investigation that accused Kanhaiya, the petitioner herein (for bail), not only participated in the said event but actually organised the same in connivance with other accused persons," the police said in its status report.
It said, "It is pertinent to mention here that shockingly the incident dated February 9 records the presence of foreign (elements) with their mouths covered which sufficiently came during the course of investigation.
