New Delhi: After about 03 years of the incident, Delhi police on Monday filed a chargesheet against former JNU students union leaders Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid, Anirban Bhattacharya and seven students from Jammu and Kashmir for allegedly holding an "anti-national" event on the varsity campus in February 2016.
"We have evidence to proceed against former JNU Students' Union leaders Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid, Anirban Bhattacharya and seven students from Jammu and Kashmir - Aquib Hussain, Mujeeb Hussain, Muneeb Hussain, Umar Gul, Rayeea Rassol, Bashir Bhat and Basharat", the police said.
Kanhaiya Kumar and others are accused of organising the event on the JNU campus against the hanging of Afzal Guru. They were later arrested but granted bail in March 2016.
The February 12, 2016 arrests of Kanhaiya Kumar, the first president of the JNU Students Union from the CPI-affiliated AISF, and others were widely denounced, more so after he was beaten up in a Delhi court on two days by some lawyers. Kanhaiya Kumar had repeatedly said that police has failed in filing chargesheet against them because it did not have any evidence.
Delhi Police however claimed that they had irrefutable evidence that Kanhaiya Kumar had raised anti-national slogans but failed to come up with the evidence in the court, weakening their case.
Reacting to the chargesheet, Kanhaiya Kumar said it is "politically motivated".
"If the news is true that a chargesheet has been filed, I would like to thank police and Modi ji. The filing of chargesheet after three years, ahead of elections, clearly shows it to be politically motivated. I trust the judiciary of my country," the former student leader told news agency ANI.
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