NEW DELHI: Another stone has being shouted been slung around the neck of the disenchanted and overburdened Jammu and Kashmir Police by its cousin in uniform, Delhi Police. Eight of the nine Kashmiri students on the run for shouting anti-Indian slogans at a memorial service for hanged terrorist Afzal Guru on the campus of Jawaharlal Nehru University on February 9 are learned to have reached the Kashmir Valley and become stone pelters, according to intel sources. New Delhi’s finest have expressed their helplessness to trace the separatists who shouted pro-azadi slogans. The venue was the launching pad for student activist Kanhaiya Kumar who wasmade an icon by Left-leaning students of JNU.
Even after six months of the Jawaharlal Nehru University sedition case, the Special Cell of the Delhi Police has been unable to trace eight Kashmiri students involved in the case. However, in an interesting twist of events, sources said that the eight students may be involved in stone pelting incidents against the Indian Army and Central Reserve Police Force in the Valley.
The eight Kashmiri students returned to the Valley even before the investigation team led by Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police Manishi Chandra could trace them. The probe had hit a dead end as the investigators were hinted to go slow by top police officers following flak from various quarters after the sedition case was registered against JNU students.
The case was initially being probed by the local police but later it was transferred to the Special Cell as the role of Kashmiri students surfaced. It has been revealed that the some of the eight Kashmiri students were from Jamia Millia Islamia University and none of them were from JNU.
The special cell will also not file a chargesheet in the case till the time the eight students are interrogated. Sleuths had asked them to join the probe but they did not “turn up”. Sources added that special cell has not been able to get evidences against student union president Kanhaiya Kumar.
Kumar was allegedly involved in anti-India campaigns. A high-power committee set up to probe anti-national activities claimed that Kanahiya was aware of the fact that students were planning to organise an event in memory of Afzal Guru.
Sources added that investigation revealed documentaries and scientific evidences against the involvement of Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya but they are still doubtful about the involvement of Kanahiya. Earlier, the forensic laboratory has stated that videos of anti-India sloganeering on basis of which sedition case was registered are “authentic”. The videos clearly show that Umar and Anirban were other shouting anti-India slogans. The event was organised on February 9 at 5 pm at Sabarmati Dhaba in JNU campus under the title—“Against judicial killing of Afzal Guru and Maqbool Bhat”. The police despite having documentary evidences where members Democratic Students Union carried out anti-national activities in JNU campus on various occasions has decided not to make it part of probe and they will stick to February 9 incident where they mourned death of Afzal Guru, a convict in parliament attack and who was later hanged.
The police have decided to not ignore the documentary evidences of the celebration of killing of CRPF jawans in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada in 2010 by members of Democratic Students Union.
Besides Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid, Anriban Bhattacharya and Kashmiri students, several others were involved.
On February 9, slogans such as Kashmir Ki Azadi Tak, Jung Rahegi Jung Rahegi and Bharat Ki Barbadi Tak Jung Rahegi, Jung Rahegi were allegedly raised at an event at JNU after which its students’ union members Kanhaiya, Umar and Anirban were arrested following a sedition case against them on February 11.
Meanwhile, the Special Cell did not oppose the applications seeking regular bail of the three accused—Kanhaiya, Umar and Anirban—on Friday stating that they did not misuse interim bail conditions and cooperated with the probe in a sedition case.