Two males had been arrested Sunday for allegedly threatening to assault Jawaharlal Nehru College on Independence Day, in a video uploaded on Fb, police stated. The accused have been recognized as Vikas Sehrawat (30), who will be heard making a threatening assertion within the alleged inflammatory video, and Raja Kumar each residents of Uttam Nagar, they stated.
In accordance with police, Sehrawat was arrested earlier for allegedly threatening and utilizing foul language for senior Delhi Congress chief and former MLA Alka Lamba in a video. He instructed police that he has been related to Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) since 2018.
Police, nonetheless, stated that they’re verifying his credentials. Sehrawat has no affiliation with JNU and made the video to hunt consideration, they stated.
Kumar is the proprietor of the telephone from which the video on JNU was uploaded, they added. “We acquired a PCR name from a JNU scholar on Sunday at 1.51 am at Vasant Kunj (North) police station stating {that a} video has been uploaded on Fb web page ‘Mahakal Youth Brigade’ alleging that the varsity could be attacked,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (southwest) Ingit Pratap Singh stated.
After receiving the PCR name, police personnel had been deployed in plain garments in any respect gates. A number of different calls had been additionally acquired on this regard, police stated.
The coed got here to police station and filed the grievance. The Jawaharlal Nehru College College students’ Union (JNUSU) workplace bearers wrote comparable grievance the place they alleged that the video promotes disharmony and enmity, utilizing inflammatory language and likewise brazenly issuing threats of bodily damage,” the DCP stated.
The video on the web page was seen and heard and a case registered underneath Sections 153A (selling enmity between completely different teams on grounds of faith, race, native land and many others.), 295A (deliberate and malicious acts, meant to outrage non secular emotions), 505 (statements conducing to public mischief) and 506 (punishment for felony intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code.
Additional investigation is underway, police stated.
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