JNU row: Kanhaiya Kumar slapped inside campus

Updated: Friday, March 11, 2016, 12:51 [IST]

New Delhi, March 11: JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar who is facing sedition charge has been slapped inside the campus.

Reportedly two men attacked kumar for 'abusing country'. As per media reports, attackers were outsiders and were angry with Kanhaiya for making anti-India slogans at the campus.

One of the attackers' name was Vikas Chaudhary, a resident of Ghaziabad. Another one who also abused Kumar was Nand Kumar.

Later both the miscreants were detained by students and private security guard of the JNU.

Kanhaiya who hails from Begusarai district of Bihar was arrested on 12 February on sedition charge and lodged in Tihar jail in Delhi. On March 2, he was granted interim bail for six months by Delhi High Court.