New Delhi: Even as Delhi's prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University continues to simmer over the arrest of its Students' Union President Kanhaiya Kumar, Delhi Police is mulling over transferring the sedition case to a special cell, sources said on Sunday.
According to the sources, DCP South Prem Nath has requested Police Commissioner BS Bassi and other senior officers to transfer the sedition case to the special cell. The Delhi Police wants the Special Cell to investigate the links between JNU students and 2001 Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru.
The letter written by DCP South Prem Nath said that the "matter needs probe regarding links between JNU students and terrorist Afzal Guru." The letter, which has been accessed by CNN-IBN said that the offence falls under 'scheduled offences' which needs specialised investigation.
On Saturday, the Delhi government ordered a magisterial probe into the ongoing row over Afzal Guru event at University campus. He said, "There are claims that JNU student leaders shouted anti-India slogans and counter claims that ABVP activists did it. To find truth, Delhi government is directing District Magistrate to conduct an enquiry."
There has been a beeline of politicians at the University with every party trying to score brownie points over the controversy. In a hard-hitting attack on the Narendra Modi government over JNU student's arrest, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi virtually drew parallel of it with the regime of Hitler, accusing NDA of "suppressing" students' voice and telling students "don't let those bullies push you around".
Rahul, who visited the JNU campus along with Delhi PCC chief Ajay Maken and former Union Minister Anand Sharma to express solidarity with students agitating against the arrest of Kanhaiya Kumar in a sedition case, was shown black flag by members BJP's student wing ABVP.
Going hammer and tongs against the government, Rahul said, "People who suppress voice of this institute are anti-national. They are trying to crush the voice of the youth. I was in Hyderabad a few days back and these same people or their leaders said that Rohith Vemula was an anti-national."
Rahul's visit to JNU today came a day after Kanhaiya Kumar's arrest in a sedition
case over an event at the varsity campus against hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, sparking massive outrage among students and criticism from non-BJP parties which dubbed it as an "emergency-like" situation.
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