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Pro-Afzal slogan-posters at JU: PIL filed in Calcutta HC against protesters
Kolkata, Feb 18 (IBNS): The West Bengal unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Calcutta High Court, demanding legal action and National Investigation Agency (NIA) probe into the 'anti-national' slogan and poster issue at Jadavpur University.
Seeking immediate identification and arrest of those students, who shouted pro Afzal and Geelani slogans, and direction for NIA probe into the matter, BJP's state spokesperson Krishanu Mitra filed his petition in the High Court.
"Few students shouted anti-national and separatist slogans in open roads. Police neither identified the accused nor arrested them. As police have not start any investigation yet, I have filed a PIL in the Calcutta High Court today, seeking NIA probe into the case," Mitra said.
Protesting against the arrest of JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar, few students of Jadavpur University on Tuesday held a torch rally in the city, from where slogans in favour of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru and separatist Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani were raised.
Few posters against the hanging of Afzal Guru and 1993 Mumbai serial blast convict Yakub Memon were also found on Wednesday inside JU campus. Posters demanding freedom for Kashmir, Nagaland and Manipur were also spotted there.
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.
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)
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