New Delhi: The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) administration has called a meeting of top university officials today to discuss the resurfacing of five students on campus who the police were searching for in connection with a sedition case.
Police officials, who are positioned outside the JNU campus since last night after they got inputs about presence of the students on campus, said they will talk to the Vice Chancellor after the meeting and ask him to direct the students to surrender.
JNU registrar Bhoopender Zutshi said he got to know about the presence of the students on the campus from media reports only and has not heard from any of them so far.
Mr Zutshi, however, did not comment on whether the university officials will interact with the five students before taking a call.
"All of them are here to join the movement against branding of the Varsity as a den of anti-nationals.They have not been issued any summons so the question of them surrendering doesn't arise.If police arrests them they will cooperate with the enquiry," JNU Students' Union Vice President Shehla Rashid Shora said.
The students had said that "they will not surrender but police can come and arrest them".
According to Ashutosh Kumar, former president of JNU Students' Union and a PhD scholar at university's School of International studies, they "have come back with a view of supporting the enquiry. The massive support we got from students and others from across the globe gave us the strength to return. I, Rama, Anirban and Anant were around but did not come in public due to atmosphere of mob lynching."
Ashutosh Kumar had said that the students were in Delhi itself and that the decision to return on Sunday evening had been taken individually and not collectively.
Police officials, who are positioned outside the JNU campus since last night after they got inputs about presence of the students on campus, said they will talk to the Vice Chancellor after the meeting and ask him to direct the students to surrender.
JNU registrar Bhoopender Zutshi said he got to know about the presence of the students on the campus from media reports only and has not heard from any of them so far.
Mr Zutshi, however, did not comment on whether the university officials will interact with the five students before taking a call.
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"All of them are here to join the movement against branding of the Varsity as a den of anti-nationals.They have not been issued any summons so the question of them surrendering doesn't arise.If police arrests them they will cooperate with the enquiry," JNU Students' Union Vice President Shehla Rashid Shora said.
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The students had said that "they will not surrender but police can come and arrest them".
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According to Ashutosh Kumar, former president of JNU Students' Union and a PhD scholar at university's School of International studies, they "have come back with a view of supporting the enquiry. The massive support we got from students and others from across the globe gave us the strength to return. I, Rama, Anirban and Anant were around but did not come in public due to atmosphere of mob lynching."
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Ashutosh Kumar had said that the students were in Delhi itself and that the decision to return on Sunday evening had been taken individually and not collectively.
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