NEW DELHI: JNU Students’ Union president Kanhaiya Kumar, who is lodged in a secluded cell in Tihar facing sedition charges, has written to the National Human Rights Commission that attack on him by a group of lawyers at the Patiala House courts complex had unnerved him and he fears serious threat not only to his life, but also to his family in Bihar.
Fearing threat to his life, the jail authorities have already provided him unprecedented security cover in Tihar.
In his five-page handwritten statement to the NHRC, a copy of which has been accessed by this newspaper, Mr Kumar has given a detailed account on how he was arrested from the JNU campus without being given any prior information or served any summons or warrant by the Delhi police.
He said, on the police request, he had given in writing that the situation in the country was deteriorating and he had full faith in India’s unity and Constitution. The same statement was issued later in the form of an appeal by the police.
Mr Kumar said when he was brought to the Patiala House courts, the police personnel were talking amongst themselves and the way arrangements had been made constantly increased his fear.
