Special cell team visits JNU to recreate event

A team of Delhi police’s special cell on Friday reportedly visited the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus to recreate the sequence of events during the controversial February 9 meeting at Sabarmati Dhaba in course of which anti-India slogans were allegedly raised by a group of people.

Although there was no official confirmation of this visit, police sources said that the special cell wanted to recreate the scene they had assessed in video clippings of the event, on the basis of which JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar and others were booked for sedition. The police said that no one was, however, questioned in connection with the case.

The case was transferred a couple of days from the district police to the special cell on the orders of the then commissioner of police Bhim Sain Bassi.

The police sources said that they also checked the process of entry and exit of outsiders in the university to ascertain a few things. “The team went there solely to recreate the scene as the probe demands it,” said a senior police officer. The Delhi police drew huge flak for handling of the entire JNU episode.

Besides Mr Kumar, two other university students — Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya — were arrested in the case under sedition charges while another one, Ashutosh Kumar, was questioned.