A journalist-friend of the JNU student Umar Khalid was questioned for nearly six hours by the Delhi Police on Saturday. Umar has been accused of raising anti-India slogans on the campus at an event on February 9.
Journalist Sadiq Naqvi, who was one of the persons Umar had spoken to after the event and before he went missing, was made to answer an extensive questionnaire.
He has been asked to visit the police station again on Sunday. He arrived at the Vasant Vihar Police Station around 11 a.m. and was quizzed by the STF officers as well as the officers from Vasant Kunj Police Station where the sedition case against Umar has been registered.
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Deputy Commissioner of police South District Prem Nath also stayed at the STF office for a brief while and questioned Sadiq.
“He was asked about Umar’s whereabouts, something Sadiq replied that he was not aware of. He did accept that he had spoken to Umar some 10 days ago and has not been in touch ever since,” said a police source.
The source added that Sadiq was further asked about the possible hideouts of Umar and the history between the two.
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He was further asked about the event commemorating the third anniversary of Afzal Guru’s hanging and whether he himself was a part of the event.
The source called the first day’s questioning “basic” in nature and said that they were verifying his responses with facts that emerged during their own investigations.