New Delhi, Jan 6 (UNI) A day after bail was denied to student leaders Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Iman in connection with the Delhi riots case, a group of students at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on Tuesday reportedly raised slogans decrying the move.
A video circulating on social media, which could not be verified by UNI, showed a protest inside the JNU campus against the denial of bail to Imam and Khalid, with students raising slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah in the intervening night between Monday and Tuesday.
Meanwhile, taking to the social media platform X, BJP national spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla stated that the controversial slogans were allegedly chanted by the ‘Tukde’ ecosystem in JNU.
He hit out at some Congress and Left party leaders, alleging that they had “crossed all limits” by giving statements favouring Khalid and Imam.
He also alleged that students belonging to their ecosystem are now raising slogans against Modi and Shah.
Poonawalla claimed that Congress and Left leaders like Udit Raj, Brinda Karat, Hussain Dalvai and Prithviraj Chavan had termed the accused as “innocent”, “opposing the court’s verdict”.
The BJP leader said that slogans raised in the protest clearly shown in the video that they have crossed all limits, alleging, “They are the same people who call Naxals martyrs.”
The Supreme Court on Monday had refused to grant bail to activists Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam in the Delhi riots case, holding that a prima facie case under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) was made out against them.
A bench comprising Justice Aravind Kumar and Justice N V Anjaria held that the statutory bar on bail under Section 43D(5) of the UAPA was attracted and, therefore, their continued incarceration could not be interfered with at this stage.
