JNU anti-national event: Police register sedition case, protests on
February 11, 2016
New Delhi
Delhi Police today registered a case of sedition in connection with an anti-national event at Jawaharlal Nehru University against the hanging of Parliament attack convict terrorist Afzal Guru following complaints by BJP MP Maheish Girri and RSS’s student front ABVP.
“Go India Go” and “Bhaarat ki barbadi tak jung rahengi, jung rahengi” slogans were shouted in JNU campus along with “Laal salaam” chanting by a group of radical left wing students in JNU campus.
Delhi Police spokesperson Rajan Bhagat said an FIR under Section of 124 A of IPC (sedition) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) has been registered against unknown persons at Vasant Kunj (North) Police station and the video footage of the event was being examined for further action.
Marking the death anniversary of terrorist Afzal Guru Guru, a group of students on Tuesday held an event on the campus and shouted slogans against India, despite varsity administration having cancelled the permission following a complaint by ABVP members, who termed the activity as “anti-national”.
The JNU administration has already instituted a “disciplinary” enquiry as to how the event took place despite withdrawal of permission and said it will wait for the probe report before taking any further action.
Meanwhile, Girri has written to the JNU Vice Chancellor as well as the HRD Ministry seeking action against the organisers and participants of the Tuesday event. He also filed a complaint with the police today.
ABVP members had already filed a police complaint yesterday and submitted a purported video of the event showing the organsiers shouting slogans calling Guru a “martyr” and clashing with the protesters, to both police and the VC.
Earlier in the day, the left-dominated JNU students union distanced itself from the controversy, saying ABVP was opposed to it and not the union. Of the four top posts of the union, three are held by Leftist AISA and AISF and one by ABVP.
The Left leaders of the union also termed the ABVP complaint as an attempt to curb the “democratic traditions” of the university.
There were protests on the campus for the second day today with slogan shouting by the two groups.
Meanwhile, BJP National Secretary Shrikant Sharma has condemned the event, saying there were a handful of people who were trying to “pollute the atmosphere” in JNU.
“Slogans against India were raised and a terrorist was called a martyr. This is unfortunate and BJP condemns it in strongest terms. We hope that the university administration will take strong action against such people,” Sharma added.
The controversy at JNU erupted earlier this week when some students had pasted posters across the campus inviting people to a protest march against “judicial killing of Afzal Guru and Maqbool Bhatt” and in solidarity with “struggle of Kashmiri people for their democratic right to self determination” at varsity’s Sabarmati dhaba.
Members of the ABVP objected to the event and wrote to the Vice Chancellor that such kind protest should not be held on campus of an educational institution, prompting the university administration to order cancellation of the march as they “feared” it might “disrupt” peace.
With inputs from PTI
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JNU students on 9th February shouting Anti India slogans in support of Afzal Guru creating unrest in JNU pic.twitter.com/XgIINn2mFk
— news : Smriti Irani (@SmritiIraniNews) February 10, 2016
Can upload only 30 sec at a time . Another video mentioning JNU and lal salaam as part of the previous protest. pic.twitter.com/90Lhag3ljD
— news : Smriti Irani (@SmritiIraniNews) February 10, 2016
While our brave soldier is fighting for life, JNU students holding cultural prog4 terrorist Afzal Guru!#ShutdownJNU pic.twitter.com/7Jdpf20NAU
— Swami Brahmachitt (@Brahmachitt) February 10, 2016
If #ABVP would not be in JNU then it has been converted in terrorist camp by communists… pic.twitter.com/OsPLxFzPV9
— chanchal kumar (@chanchalck1) February 10, 2016
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