JNU students Umar Khalid, Anirban questioned for 5 hours after surrender

New Delhi: In a dramatic development, Jawaharlal Nehru University students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, who have been booked on charges of sedition, surrendered before Delhi Police late last night following which they were questioned for at least five hours.

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During the interrogation, the police asked the two about their whereabouts during the incident and also on their alleged raising anti-national sloganeering.

The police also asked Umar about his call detail records. Both Umar and Anirban revealed to the police about their location when they were absconding and also assisted the police in the interrogation.

The Delhi Police have made a plan based on which the two would be presented before the Magistrate, ensuring their safety.

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Earlier on Tuesday, the Delhi High Court had refused to grant them protection from arrest and told them that they will have to surrender and face the law.

The duo, who returned to the JNU campus last Sunday after having gone missing since February 12, drove from the administrative bloc to the main gate of the university, got into a Delhi Police vehicle and were taken to an undisclosed destination.

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Police sources said Khalid and Bhattacharya surrendered at around midnight.

The two have been placed under police custody at South Campus police station. They will be produced before a magistrate on Wednesday morning, the sources said.

According to sources, a medical check was conducted on both the students in the police station and they were questioned for around five hours.

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Khalid and Bhattacharya are among the five students who, along with JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar, had allegedly shouted anti-national slogans at an event organized in the university campus to mark the death anniversary of parliament attack convict Afzal Guru on February 9.

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Besides Kumar, Khalid and Bhattacharya, the other students are Rama Naga, Ashutosh Kumar and Anant Prakash. Delhi Police had issued a look-out notice on February 20 against Khalid, Bhattacharya, Naga, Ashutosh and Prakash.

The university students formed a human chain to prevent the media from following Khalid and Bhattacharya when they were leaving the campus this evening.