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Anti-India chanter Umar Khalid can surrender if situation is conducive, says father
New Delhi, Feb 19 (IBNS) The family of Umar Khalid, the missing student of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) who was caught in camera shouting anti-India and pro-Afzal Guru and Kashmir independence slogans, said he can surrender only if there is a conducive atmosphere for the same.
Umar Khalid's father Sayed Qasim Ilyas told NDTV: "I don't subscribe to some of the slogans Umar raised, But can praise for Afzal Guru be considered sedition?"
"If the atmosphere is conducive, I will appeal for Umar to surrender," Qasim Ilyas, a former member of banned terror group SIMI, told the channel in his Delhi residence as quoted by the website.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court, where arrested JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar a day ago filed a bail plea fearing for his life as violent protests by lawyers marked his production in a lower court, on Friday refused to hear the petition and asked him to file for the same in an appropriate court (read high court).
Kumar, facing charges of sedition, moved the apex court for bail on Thursday but the apex court said it cannot hear his plea at this stage. It also, however, said that it cannot ask him to ask for bail in the Patiala House Court in New Delhi where there were attempts to assault him by a section of lawyers who also beat up journalists.
The Delhi court on Wednesday sent Kumar to judicial custody till Mar 2.
The Jawaharlal Nehru University (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.
Protests spread across India with situation turning ugly even in Kolkata's Jadavpur University campus.
TV grab of Umar Khalid
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