JNU row: Umar Khalid, Bhattacharya surrender before Delhi Police

Two Jawaharlal Nehru University students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, facing the charge of sedition, surrendered before Delhi Police late last night. Earlier during the day, Delhi High Court refused to grant them protection from arrest. The court told them that they will have to surrender and face the law. The two have been placed under police custody at South Campus police station. Police



sources said, Khalid and Bhattacharya are likely to be produced before a magistrate today.

The duo returned to the JNU campus last Sunday after remaining underground since February 12. Khalid and Bhattacharya are among the five students who, along with JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar, had allegedly shouted anti-national slogans at an event organized in the university campus on February 9.