JNU's Umar Khalid had planned Afzal Guru show across India: Intel reports..

 

 

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Democratic Student's Union (DSU) activists led by Umar Khalid, a PhD student in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) who conceived the idea of a cultural evening to mark the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, had planned similar events across the country. Intelligence reports suggest the group wanted to hold such events in 18 universities in the country.
An intelligence report on the role of the 10 DSU activists who organised the event to commemorate Guru's death anniversary where anti-India slogans were raised, however, has no mention of Kanhaiya Kumar, JNU Student's Union president who was arrested for sedition.
Kumar is the only one to be arrested leading to a controversy over police action that followed Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh's comment that anti-national activities will not be tolerated.

Umar Khalid, a PhD student in Jawaharlal Nehru University.

The intelligence mechanism seems to be divided on the decision to arrest Kumar. "Organising such events or being part of them alone cannot be viewed as sedition. There needs to be prima-facie evidence to suggest that the sloganeering was to incite people to commit acts to overthrow the state," an official said.The report explains the role of DSU activists in organising the event. DSU is an extreme Left group active in JNU. However, students who shouted anti-India slogans have not been identified in the report.
The DSU activists responsible for organising the event have not been named as accused in the FIR registered by the Delhi Police. The FIR mentions that the posters for the event had their names.
The report states that Umar Khalid, a Phd student from the School of Social Sciences was the main organiser of the event. "He conceived the idea of organising a cultural evening on February 9, the day on which Afzal Guru was hanged," the report states.
Khalid did his M.A. in history and M.Phil from JNU and has been doing field work in Jharkhand, according to the report. He is one of the applicants who sought permission for organising the event on JNU campus.
The report names Banjyotsana Lahiri, a guest faculty in Ambedkar University who conceptualised the event in consultation with Umar. "She proposed the title of the event as 'A country without a post office' against the Brahminical cannibal collective conscience, against judicial murder of Afzal Guru, AFSPA and atrocities by Indian Army, Right to Self Determination including assassination of people of Kashmir," the report states.