A Delhi court has sent two Jawaharlal Nehru University students – Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya to 14 day judicial custody. They have been been arrested in a sedition case over a controversial event at the JNU campus. Both the accused were first sent on three days’ police remand and interrogated at RK Puram police station. The police remand was extended by two days and the duo were confronted with jailed JNU Students Union president Kanhaiya Kumar.
Later, the case was transferred to Delhi Police’s Special Cell and their police custody was again extended by a day. A source said proceedings took place in a makeshift courtroom set up inside a police station. On February 9, an event was organised inside JNU campus to protest against the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru and anti-national slogans were allegedly raised in it.