Umar Khalid returns to JNU, Delhi Police to arrest him for sedition Live News & Updates: Delhi Police will act at right time, says MHA

Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi has demanded co-operation from the JNU students. "If they have not done anything wrong then there is no reason to evade the law,," he said.

5:00 PM: Police will take action at the right time, will take appropriate action according to the law, says Kiren Rijiju, MoS, Ministry of Home Affairs. Umar Khalid, along with five other JNU students booked under sedition are yet to be arrested.

1:45 PM: ABVP demands Umar Khalid and his five associates to surrender before the police. “Anti-national students should surrender themselves. They are booked under sedition. They are continuing to defame JNU. A section of faculty is supporting them, said ABVP spokesperson Saurabh Sharma.

1:30 PM: JNU Teachers’ Association have demanded Delhi Police to drop the draconian charge of sedition against Umar Khalid, Kanhaiya Kumar and other students.

1:00 PM: According to sources, JNU students have changed their strategy of surrendering before the police. Instead, they are waiting for the Police to barge inside the campus and take them into custody.

New Delhi, Feb 22: Nearly 10 days after absconding, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student Umar Khalid returned to the campus late on Sunday night. Umar, along with five other students – Anirban Bhattacharya, Ashutosh Kumar, Anant Prakash Narayan, Riyazul Haq and Rama Nega were booked under sedition for allegedly organizing the Afzal Guru commemoration rally in February 9. The six students had subsequently went into hiding.

Khalid was received with much fanfare on JNU campus, where he delivered a solid speech attacking the Government. “My name is Umar Khalid…and I’m not a terrorist,” he said. (ALSO READ: My name is Umar Khalid and I’m not a terrorist: JNU student speaks up)

“For the past 10 days, I’ve been hearing numerous theories about me. They (Government) have called me a member of Jaish-e-Muhammad. They said, I’ve visited Pakistan on two occasions. When did this happen? How untrue this could be?”

Meanwhile Delhi Police have refrained from cracking down inside the campus, citing the lack of permission granted to them. The six students, including Khalid are expected to surrender themselves before the police today.

Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi has demanded co-operation from the protesting students. “Our CID team has entered inside the campus. I appeal the students to co-operate with the law. If they have not done anything wrong then there is no reason to evade the law,” he said.

According to one of the students Rama Nega, who returned with Khalid, they were forced to abscond since there was “an atmosphere of mob-lynching.”