Umar Khalid of JNU confesses to sedition

Jawaharlal Nehru University student Umar Khalid has confessed to sedition following a 5-hour interrogation after he surrendered to the Delhi police in a dramatic manner at midnight on Tuesday night. Umar Khalid is stated to have admitted that he did indeed make anti-India slogans in support of Parliamentary attack case convict Afzal Guru. Umar Khalid had surrendered to the police along with Anirban Bhattacharya at the police premises in South Delhi. Kanhaiya Kumar, JNU students union president, too, had similarly admitted his role in organising the seditious meeting and raising anti-India slogans on February 9, but withdrew his confession later on. Indeed the police had decided to go soft on Kanhaiya Kumar at one stage, but since his retraction they had hardened their position and want to go the whole hog in the JNU case. The Delhi police have told the Delhi High Court that they would go for a fresh remand because some more JNU students, Rama Naga, Asutoush Kumar and Anant Prakash had yet to surrender. The Delhi High court had given them time till Wednesday to surrender. The JNU students put up pressure on their Vice-Chancellor not to allow the police inside the campus. In fact, the whole rot in the JNU came out in the open with the Vice-Chancellor allowing the police in for the first time. Since then sleazy details of the students singing sedition by the day and getting nakedly salacious by the night have come out in the public domain. Even so, the indifferent opposition parties are backing the students owing to the involvement of a CPI leader's daughter in the JNU rot and to keep the non-existent intolerance debate alive in the country.