JNU row: Delhi govt orders magisterial inquiry

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal tweeted: "There are claims that JNU student leaders shouted anti-India slogans and counter claims that ABVP activists did it."

"To find truth, Del govt is directing DM to conduct an enquiry," he said.

Kejriwal said no anti-national activity should be tolerated.

"No anti-national activity shud be tolerated under any circumstances. Those who did it must be identified and punished," the AAP supremo said.

The JNU is currently facing protests and counter protests with the police cracking down on students over the anti-India slogans raised earlier to mark the death anniversary of Parliament Attack convict Afzal Guru on its campus in the national capital.

With tension rising, several former army officers wrote to the varsity that they would return their degrees from JNU if it becomes a hub of anti-national activities while on the other hand various groups, including the Leftists, slammed the government for pushing an RSS-BJP agenda by crushing the students over the incident of slogan-shouting against India, which they called was an aberration.

Meanwhile, several students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi have been barred from academic activities over the incident of anti-India slogans within the campus in support of Afzal Guru, even as tension ran high on the campus after a students' union leader was arrested over sedition charges and police searched for more student suspects in the slogan shouting.

Student leader Kanhaiya Kumar, who is the president of the JNU students' union- the left-leaning All India Students Federation (AISF), has been arrested.