Ashutosh Kumar, one of the five JNU students who resurfaced on the campus on Sunday night and is wanted by the police in a sedition case, joined the investigation on Saturday.
Kumar appeared at the R.K. Puram Police Station, where Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya are being interrogated, a police official said. He received a police summons on Friday night.
The other two — Rama Naga and Anant Kumar — are yet to receive one. They had written to the police that they are ready to join the investigation. -PTI
Shubhomoy Sikdar and Mohammed Iqbal report:
On Friday, JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar was brought to the police station and was subjected to face-to-face questioning with Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya . Earlier, he was questioned at the Tihar Jail for nearly nine hours in two rounds.
It is learnt that the three were shown a video of the incident and confronted with questions. Umar and Anirban were asked about Kumar’s speech at Ganga Dhaba two days later and whether there was anything seditious about it. They, however, denied that this to be the case.
However, there have been contradictions in the way they described the sequence of events, said a source.
They were also asked about other students whose names featured in the invitation pamphlet and their roles. Again, all three chose to confine their responses to their own participation and activities, sources added. > More...
