New Delhi: The Police will produce Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union president Kanhaiya Kumar before a Delhi court on Wednesday.


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Kanhaiya Kumar was arrested in a sedition case over an event at the varsity's campus against hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru.


A Delhi court on Monday extended by two days the police custody of Kumar


Delhi Police Commissioner BS Bassi had claimed that the JNU student had raised anti-national slogans during the controversial event in the campus.


Meanwhile, officials at the Ministry of Home Affairs have suggested that Kumar may not have raised anti-India slogans


PTI reported on Tuesday that as per inputs from security agencies, Kanhaiya Kumar - arrested on charges of sedition - may also not have made any inflammatory speech at the JNU event which is at the centre of a raging controversy.


MHA officials are of the view that the Delhi Police may have acted out of “over enthusiasim” in slapping of the serious charge of sedition against Kumar.


Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday claimed that the event organised inside JNU campus against the hanging of Afzal Guru had received "support" from Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) founder Hafiz Saeed.


The raging JNU row has turned into an ideological battle between the BJP and many opposition parties.