Kanhaiya Kumar raised no anti-India slogans in JNU, says lab report

JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar raised no anti-India slogans for which he was charged with sedition last year, top officials investigating the case have revealed to India Today, citing forensic examination of voice samples.

Controversial slogans had resonated in the JNU campus in February 2016, sparking a national debate on freedom of expression and nationalism.

Top sources in the Delhi Police's special cell, which is investigating the matter, have revealed they sent as many as 40 video samples of the controversial JNU event for forensic examinationMost of the footage, they said, have been found to be authentic.

But lab examinations have identified nine students as possible slogan-shouters, including Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, special-cell sources said.