JNU Student Kanhaiya Kumar's Lawyer On How He Was Beaten

New Delhi: Despite a massive police presence at New Delhi's Patiala House courts, the lawyer for Kanhaiya Kumar, the JNU student charged with sedition, says her client was beaten inside the courtroom on Wednesday.

Vrinda Grover told NDTV that when she walked into court, the police just stood by as an aggressive mob of lawyers shouted slogans.

She was asked to wait in Court number 4. At some point, she saw Kanhaiya Kumar being rushed into Court number 3, which was just in front of where the police were standing. Soon afterwards, a man in dark glasses walked out of Court number 3. The District Commissioner of Police (DCP) present there, asked the man who he was. The man said 'tu poochega main kaun hoon?' (you dare ask who I am?) and walked off.
 
Sensing something amiss, Ms Grover entered Court number 3 to find Mr Kumar looking beaten and bruised. He said he was beaten by the man in the glasses. Shockingly, the DCP and the Registrar General of Delhi High Court, who had been asked to be present by the Supreme Court said they saw nothing.

When Ms Grover asked the police to act, they did nothing.

She says at that point, she alerted the Supreme Court, who rushed down a team of observers.

Even then, there was resistance towards recording the terrifying chain of events. The doctor called by the police to conduct a medical test refused to take down Mr Kumar's statement that he was beaten in court.

He complied only after the judge's instructions. According to Ms Grover, only the arrival of Supreme Court observers team led to a change in the police's attitude. Otherwise 'anything may have happened.'

Earlier, Delhi police chief BS Bassi had told NDTV in an interview that the police had delivered Kanhaiya Kumar to the court safely.