New Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru University students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, who have been booked on charges of sedition, surrendered before Delhi Police late last night. The two have been placed under police custody at South Campus police station. They were questioned for at least 5 hours. Earlier, the Delhi High Court had refused to grant them protection from arrest and told them that they will have to surrender and face the prosecution. The duo, who returned to the JNU campus last Sunday after having gone missing since February 12, got into a Delhi Police vehicle and were taken to an undisclosed destination. Police sources said Khalid and Bhattacharya surrendered around midnight.
They will be produced before a magistrate on Wednesday morning, the sources said. A medical check was conducted on both the students in the police station. Khalid and Bhattacharya are among the five students who, along with JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar, had allegedly shouted anti-national slogans at an event organized in the university campus to mark the death anniversary of parliament attack convict Afzal Guru on February 9. Delhi Police had issued a look-out notice on February 20 against Khalid, Bhattacharya, Naga, Ashutosh and Prakash.
