New Delhi: Tihar jail administration has decided to increase the security of Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union president Kanhaiya Kumar arrested in connection with a sedition case.
According to intelligence inputs, Kanhaiya could be attacked inside the jail.
The JNUSU president claimed that he was beaten and almost disrobed in the presence of police personnel in Patiala House Court premises.
In the video accessed by CNN-IBN, Kanhaiya told the Supreme Court team that the police did not arrest the attackers even after he had identified them in the courtroom.
It is the first statement of Kanhaiya on camera after Patiala House Court attack. Narrating the incident, Kanhaiya said, "The media ambushed me as soon as I reached the gate. Then the police brought me inside. And then a man in a lawyer's uniform attacked me and it looked like he was waiting for the moment, sitting in anticipation. The attackers were calling others to join them, and shouting, 'he's arrived'. They were all attacking me, so much so that I was almost disrobed in the process."
Meanwhile, Delhi Police is seeking further custody of other two JNU students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya.
Khalid and Bhattacharya are among the five students who, along with Kanhaiya, had allegedly shouted anti-national slogans at an event organised in the university campus to mark the death anniversary of 2001 Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru on February 9.
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