(Image source from: Shouted pro-Afzal Guru slogans)

Jawaharlal Nehru University students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, who have been booked on charges of sedition, are being interrogated by the Delhi Police in the wee hours on Wednesday and asked them about the sequence of events that took place on February 9.The police has asked, why such event was organised and from where did the money came.

During the interrogation, Umar Khalid confessed that he and his group has raised pro-Afzal slogans. They have also It also asked the JNU students about the anti-national slogans and former DU professor SAR Geelani, who has been charged with sedition for organising a pro-Afzal Guru program at Press Club of India.

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

Umar Khalid and Bhattacharya are among the five students, along with JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar, had allegedly shouted anti-national slogans at an event organised in the university campus to mark the death anniversary of the parliament attack convict Afzal Guru on February 9. The other students are Rama Naga, Ashutosh Kumar and Anant Prakash.

JNU has been on the boil after the arrest of its students' union president Kanhaiya Kumar on sedition charges after some students organised a meet to mark the anniversaries of the executions of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru and Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front co-founder Maqbool Bhat. Anti-India slogans were raised at the gathering.

By Premji