New Delhi: Delhi Police on Friday started second round of questioning of Jawaharlal Nehru University students Kanhaiya Kumar and Umar Khalid, sources said.
According to the sources, Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, who have been arrested in connection with a sedition case filed against them, were questioned for five hours on Thursday.
A Delhi court on Thursday sent JNUSU President Kanhaiya, to one day police custody after the prosecution said that he was needed to be confronted with the other two arrested JNU students Umar and Anirban.
The police had applied for the production warrant of Kumar on Wednesday on the ground that he was needed to be confronted with the other two students in view of the discrepancies in their statements regarding the controversial JNU event.
While opposing the plea, Kumar's counsel, Bankim Kulshrestha, said that the police already had got five days' custody of his client and it had sufficient time to interrogate him in the matter.
The counsel further said that there was no connection between Kumar and the other two students arrested in the case as they belong to different student wings.
The police had arrested Kumar on February 12, a day after a case of sedition and criminal conspiracy was registered at Vasant Kunj (North) Police Station in connection with an event in the varsity's campus in which anti-national slogans were allegedly raised.
The case was registered on the basis of a video footage of the event obtained from a Hindi news channel.
While Kumar was arrested, at least five others including Khalid and Anirban went absconsing after the event. They resurfaced in JNU campus on Monday night and surrendered before police.
Khalid and Anirban were sent to three days' police remand by a city court, after their midnight surrender and subsequent arrest in a case of sedition.
(With inputs from PTI)
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