JNU Students Union Leader arrested for Sedition, Emergency-Like Situation in JNU

Firstpost: Jawaharlal Nehru University students’ union president Kanhaiya Kumar, arrested in a case of sedition and criminal conspiracy for holding an 'anti-national' event inside the university premises, was on Friday remanded to three-day police custody by a Delhi court even as Opposition parties lashed out at the Modi government. Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Friday accused the Narendra Modi government of "bullying" JNU because it will not toe the BJP line. In the same city, on the same day, Nobel winner Amartya Sen drove home an unambiguous message on the right to dissent: "India has been much too tolerant on intolerance".
The arrest follows a JNU rally against the 2013 hanging of Mohammed Afzal Guru at which anti-India slogans were allegedly used. University teachers have criticised the arrest as "excessive police action". Afzal Guru was convicted over a 2001 plot to attack India's parliament. He had always denied plotting the attack, which was carried out by Kashmiri militants and killed 14 people
Kanhaiya was produced before Metropolitan Magistrate Lovleen where the police sought his custodial interrogation for five days to ascertain the alleged links of the accused persons, including those who are allegedly absconding, with terrorist groups.
The police struck after videos of the protest went viral, reports The Hindu.
The police told the court that Kanhaiya was also required to be interrogated for the purpose of identification of other accused who were seen shouting “anti-national” slogans during the event organised in the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Campus on February 9.
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Some Social Conversation:
Rahul Gandhi tweeted in series,

While Anti-India sentiment is unquestionably unacceptable, the right to dissent & debate is an essential ingredient of democracy (1/2)

— Office of RG (@OfficeOfRG) February 12, 2016

and 2nd tweet is -

Modi Govt & ABVP bullying an institution like JNU simply because it won't toe their line is completely condemnable (2/2)

— Office of RG (@OfficeOfRG) February 12, 2016

India's largest Students Islamic Organisation of India (SIO of India) says on JNU Case -

SIO of India Strongly criticizes the over involvement of police and ministers at JNUSU, the issue was projected in...
Posted by SIO of India on Saturday, February 13, 2016

Arvind Kejriwal tweeted-

No one supports anti-national forces. But targetting innocent students using that as an excuse will prove v costly to Modi govt

— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) February 12, 2016