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India's Congress leader to call on president on student leader arrest, violence at court

Xinhua, February 18, 2016 Adjust font size:

India's opposition Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi and the chief minister of the Indian capital Arvind Kejriwal will call on Indian President Pranab Mukherjee Thursday over the arrest of a student leader and violence at court.

The Congress had also accused the Delhi Police of doing nothing to stop the repeated attacks in Patiala House court in central Delhi by rightwing lawyers upon students, journalists and their supporters, calling it "jungle raj" (rule of jungle).

Police arrested a student leader at the Jawaharlal Nehru University for alleged "sedition" last week and a court in Delhi authorized his detention till next month.

The act has triggered widespread protests by leftwing parties, students, intellectuals and journalists.

Some Hindu rightwing lawyers attacked the accused student, Kanhaiya Kumar, some journalists as well as their supporters on Tuesday and Wednesday within the premises of a court here.

Police stood by doing nothing to stop the attackers, according to media reports. Endit