The protests in northeast Delhi took a violent turn in Delhi’s worst riots in the recent past in which around 53 people were killed and many injured.
Tag: Umar Khalid
JNU sedition case: Court slams Delhi Police for “filing chargesheet without approval”
In a new development to the JNU sedition case, on Saturday a Delhi Court slammed Delhi Police for filing charge sheet without approval of the legal department. On January 14, Delhi Police had slapped Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid, Anirban Bhattacharya and nine others with sedition charges for allegedly raising “anti-India”[Read More…]
JNU sedition row BJP creation, says ex-ABVP member
New Delhi: A former ABVP member has said the chargesheet filed against the 10 JNU students, including Kanhaiya Kumar and Umar Khalid, is the brainchild of BJP and claimed that some ABVP members had themselves raised “Pakistan Zindabad” slogan on the JNU campus in 2016 which led to the slapping[Read More…]
JNU sedition case: Chargesheet filed against Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid and eight others for “anti-national” event
The Delhi police has filed a chargesheet against for 10 people including former JNU president Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid organising out an “anti-national” event at Jawaharlal Nehru University in February 2016. The 10 are accused of carrying out an event at the JNU campus following the hanging of the master[Read More…]
JNU Sedition Row: ‘Charge sheet claim is a diversion tactic of BJP’
New Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru Students’ Union (JNUSU) President N Sai Balaji has rubbished the claim of charge sheet against the former JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar and several others by the police and termed it ‘a diversion tactic’ of Bhartiya Janata Party ahead of upcoming 2019 Lok Sabha polls. Speaking with[Read More…]
“Wanted to present Independence gift to nation” says 2 men who attacked Umar Khalid
A video of two men claiming to have attacked Umar Khalid on Monday outside the Constitution Club of India where he had gone to attend an event. In a video, the duo confesses of attempting to kill the JNU student Khalid and has requested the police to stop harassing other[Read More…]
Watch: Guarantee no attack on critics of government: Umar Khalid to Modi
A day after he survived an attack on his life in the heart of the capital, JNU scholar Umar Khalid on Tuesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to assure in his Independence Day speech that critics of the government won’t be targeted. “Modiji, you had asked for suggestions for your IDay speech.[Read More…]
JNU student Umar Khalid narrowly escapes gun fire by unidentified man
JNU student leader Umar Khalid narrowly escaped the gun fire shot by an unidentified man outside Constitution Club of India, in Delhi on Monday afternoon. Khalid has escaped unhurt. As per the reports, the attacker came on a motorcycle and fled the spot after opening fire at Khalid. “There was[Read More…]
The draw of Kanhaiya Kumar, from slogans for the marginalised to advertising for Congress
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on June 12 re-launched the Congress-run newspaper, National Herald in Bengaluru after being temporarily suspended in 2008. National Herald also ran into controversy after it was alleged that the Congress party gave interest-free loans to Associated Journals Limited (AJL), the company which published the newspaper.[Read More…]
A year later, Delhi Police lacks absolute evidence to charge Kanhaiya Kumar
Almost a year since Kanhaiya Kumar’s arrest on charges of sedition, the Delhi Police has reportedly not found any absolute evidence to pursue its charges against the former student of Jawaharlal Nehru University. Kanahaiya Kumar was jailed on February 9, 2016. He was charged with sedition, along with two other[Read More…]
Ramjas is not an isolated incident but a part of the Left’s organized pattern
The unfortunate incident of a students’ clash at the Ramjas college of Delhi University has been projected as an issue of free speech & democratic rights. But what is being missed in the coverage by the various media outlets is that this is not an isolated incident but part of[Read More…]
ABVP disrupts seminar in Ramjas college; throw stones, attack students
Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad’s student activists disrupted a seminar that had JNU student Umar Khalid, eminent film maker Sanjay Kak and Bimol Akoijam as speakers. The two-day long seminar is organised by Wordcraft, the literary society of Ramjas College, on ‘Cultures of Protests’. The members of ABVP, who opposed[Read More…]
Umar Khalid does it again, compares Burhan with Che Guevara
Umar Khalid, the sedition accused in JNU case has once again courted controversy by comparing, the slain Hizbul Mujahideeen terrorist Burhan Wani to Che Guevara. In a facebook post, he showed his support to Burhan and condemned the killing by the “Indian state.” Quoting Che’s famous words, Khalid writes, “I[Read More…]