Police aim at curbing JNU sedition virus from spreading

The Delhi police have mounted their investigations into Jawaharlal University students' sedition cases, even as the students are knocking at the courts with bail pleas in a denial mode. Inasmuch as the JNU students wish to use their study time for extra-curricular political activity with gay abandon, the police bid is aimed at curbing the same from spreading as part of the Opposition-sponsored Intolerance Debate. The police on Friday issued a look-out circular (LOC) for three JNU students who they suspected were part of the group responsible for raising anti-national slogans on the university campus on February 9. Videos showed JNU students union president Kanhaiya Kumar raising solgans with such gay abandon as to put any seasoned labour leaders to shame. He is since trying to paint himself as innocent in the crowd of rank sedition spewed out in JNU. Despite the best of legal help, the student leader is facing lack of provisions in the law to bail him out. From the Supreme Court, he is back in the Delhi High Court, which he should have moved in the first place, and might be back in the Patiala House Court. While conducting searches in Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR), the police are considering announcing a reward for information on the three main suspects. The police meanwhile detained a journalist from Bijnor in Uttar Pradesh, who they believe is a friend of one of the three absconding students. The journalist was brought to Delhi on Friday evening and was being questioned. Several teams, including the Delhi Police Special Cell, have joined the search for the students and have started questioning close friends of the students. The police have collected call detail records (CDR) from the mobile phones of the three students. The police have alerted the airport authorities about the three suspects in a bid to prevent them from fleeing the country. On February 9, an event was organised in JNU to protest the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru. The police are preparing to question at least ten more JNU students who are suspected to have been involved in organising the February 9 event and are staying on the the university campus. The police recorded statements of 17 eyewitnesses, including university students, JNU security staff and staff members. There are at least eight videos collected from various news channels related to the incident. So the police have the full picture, while interested parties are also doctoring their own.