SAR Gilani's kin seek support from JNU

March 07, 2016 17:57

"There are many, including us, who are party to the agitation against booking of the Jawaharlal Nehru University students in a sedition case over an event against hanging of Afzal Guru but will the JNU stand for SAR Gilani who has been charged with the same offence," asks his brother Bismillah.

Gilani was arrested in the wee hours of February 15, barely three days after the arrest of JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar. While six JNU students have been charged with sedition over an event on campus, Geelani is facing the charges over an event at the Press Club on the same issue.

His family, however, feels the way the chorus for Kanhaiya's release grew among students supported by academicians and others, Geelani has been given a "differential" treatment by JNU.

"The event was the same, the charges are the same. Police had been claiming that they had evidence against Kanhaiya which is also under question now but no such claims of proof have been made against Geelani. But why is the public discourse silent on him, why the differential treatment," Bismillah told PTI.

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