JNUSU chief Kanhaiya Kumar’s interrogation report accessed-HT

by Abbas Adil

India Today has been able to exclusively access details of the Delhi Police’s interrogation report of JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar. Kumar was arrested by the Delhi Police on February 12 on charges of sedition and criminal conspiracy. Kumar is currently in juridical remand and is being questioned by officials from the Delhi Police. During his interrogation Kanhaiya has denied raising anti-India slogans at the pro-Afzal event that was organised on the JNU campus on February 9.

 
Here are the main highlights of what Kanhaiya has told the Delhi Police: 
  1. Kanhaiya says that in his capacity as JNU students body president he got to know on the evening of February 8 that a cultural event was going to be organised at JNU by the Democratic Students Union on February 9.
  2. Kanhaiya says that a day before the event he was not aware of the agenda of the event organised by the DSU or that pro-Afzal and anti-India slogans were going to be raised at the event.
  3. Kanhaiya has told the Delhi Police that he was unwell on February 8 and that he slept through most of the day on February 9.
  4. Kanhaiya has told the police that he woke up only in the early evening of February 9 when members of the All India Students Federation (AISF) came and woke him up and told him that the administration had withdrawn permission for the event that was being organised by the DSU.
  5. Kanhaiya says that it was his associates from the AISF who informed him that the situation at the venue was turning tense and that there was a clash building between the ABVP and members of the DSU.
  6. Kanhaiya tells the police that around 5:30 PM he reached the Sabarmati Dhaba which was the venue of the event organised by the DSU.
  7. Kanhaiya says by then the sloganeering had already started and the situation was quite tense.
  8. Kanhaiya goes on to say that it was in his capacity as JNUSU President that he took the mike and spoke to the crowd that had gathered.
  9. Kanhaiya admits that he made a fiery speech where he criticised the RSS, the Modi Government and its policies.
  10. However, during his interrogation Kanhaiya has insisted that he did not say anything that was seditious.
  11. Kanhaiya has denied raising any of the anti-national slogans that can be seen in the video clips from JNU.
  12. Kanhaiya has helped the cops identify the members of the DSU who were present in the DSU event at JNU.
  13. Kanhaiya has named DSU members Umar Khalid, Anirbhan Bhattacharya, Riazul Haq and Rubina Saifee among others as being the key organisers of the event.
  14. Kanhaiya has also said that a lot of the people making the anti-India slogans were not from JNU but had come from outside JNU.
  15. Kanhaiya has told the police that the clip which is being shown in which he is seen checking the identity cards of those who entered the venue is not from February 9, but from an earlier event at JNU.

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