This Delhi Police report on why Kanhaiya should not get bail is hilarious but exposes Delhi Police intent to manufacture a case against the #JNU students.
See thewire.in/2016/02/25/now-delhi-police-probe-foreign-hand-non-educational-activities-on-campus-22594/ and http://www.firstpost.com/politics/kanhaiya-kumar-versus-state-read-this-delhi-police-status-report-and-judge-for-yourself-is-this-sedition-2641724.html
First, maybe Delhi Police could employ some JNU students (after certifying that they are not anti-national of course) who can proof-read their reports submitted in court.
Can bail be denied only because Kanhaiya has wide support and can become a rallying-point for a movement? He has already become a rallying point for all Indians who will fight for their right to free speech and will remain so for the rest of his life. So will the Police just keep him locked up for the rest of his life?
Is Delhi Police now the censor board for all speech and writing in India? They object to the words "Brahmanical collective conscience" now. And of course the Delhi Police believes using the academic phrase "judicial killing" (also found in criminology text-books) is contemptuous and probably according to Police Commissioner B S Bassi blasphemous as well.
How much money do you need to shout slogans on campus? They want to investigate the finances involved.
How will Kanhaiya being released on bail prevent the police from looking at JNU CCTV footage.
And from now on the Delhi Police will determine what are educational and what are non-educational activities on campuses. Advance warning - Organizing an academic discussion on terrorism might be labeled as non-educational.
The status report also says that the February 9 event had ramifications in India as well as abroad. Well of course it has had. If the Modi Government had not projected an insignificant campus slogan-shouting event as sedition, it would have passed by un-noticed.
The Delhi Police has said it wants to see if there is a nexus with the "anti-India movement" in the country.
What is this "anti-India movement" in the country that has suddenly come into existence in the conspiracy theorist mind-set of the Delhi Police?
The JNU students named in the Police FIR must jointly move the Supreme Court under Article 32 now and seek quashing of the FIR and their release from illegal detention. They must challenge Section 124A IPC and its interpretation being used by the Police and they must show that there are no grounds to invoke the law on the crime of sedition even if all that they are alleged to have done is admitted - of course without prejudice.
They must do this now otherwise all or some of them will languish in jail for months, maybe even years, and the police will slowly manufacture evidence of criminality against them. The Modi Government will not gracefully admit its mistake, it will not back off. These students should approach the Supreme Court now while there is so much public support for them. If this drags on for months or years, public attention will have moved on and they will become easier targets for the State to victimize.
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