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JNU report sent to cops

JNU has sent its probe report on the February 9 event commemorating Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru's execution to Delhi police's anti-terror wing that is investigating the sedition case against Kanhaiya Kumar and others.

Pheroze L. Vincent Published 29.04.16, 12:00 AM

New Delhi, April 28: JNU has sent its probe report on the February 9 event commemorating Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru's execution to Delhi police's anti-terror wing that is investigating the sedition case against Kanhaiya Kumar and others.

Chief proctor A.P. Dimri sent the report on investigating officer Umesh Barthwal's request. The probe was boycotted by students and teachers, who called it unrepresentative. Kanhaiya and sedition co-accused Umar Khalid are on now on indefinite hunger strike along with many others demanding withdrawal of the report and the punishments given to them on its basis.

"The report was sent following their (police's) request. We haven't contacted them for any information," vice-chancellor M. Jagadesh Kumar, who had constituted the probe panel, said in a text message to The Telegraph in response to a question. The complete report has not been disclosed to the students or teachers yet.

Following the Afzal-related event and allegations that anti-India slogans were raised there, Kanhaiya, Umar and fellow-scholar Anirban Bhattacharya were arrested on sedition charges. They spent over two weeks in jail before getting bail. A magisterial probe had found TV footage of the event aired by some channels doctored and JNU guards' testimonies unreliable.

Based on the JNU report, three students, including Umar and Anirban, have been rusticated for varying terms, two asked to leave hostels, two academics from other Delhi varsities debarred from JNU and 14 others, including Kanhaiya, fined. One of those rusticated, Mujeeb Gattoo, was the only JNU student found to have raised anti-India slogans along with some others who couldn't be identified.

Besides students and teachers unions, several politicians, including Rahul Gandhi, have demanded that the matter be probed fairly by JNU itself and not the police.

Today, Anirban, who is from Calcutta, who is yet to vacate his hostel room, received a notice for attending the campus screening of Muzaffarnagar Baaqi Hai - a documentary on the 2013 riots in the town - last August. Permission for the screening had been withdrawn after protests by RSS student wing ABVP. "Others received notices months ago, I got this now when I have been rusticated," Anirban said.

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