Kanhaiya Kumar told the magistrate that he was nowhere involved in any anti-India sloganeering.
Kanhaiya Kumar, the president of JNU students union, was remanded for custodial interrogation for three days by a court in a sedition case today.
The Delhi Police claimed that anti-India slogans were shouted by the accused during the campus event organised on February 9 to commemorate hanging of Parliament attack case convict Afzal Guru and Kanhaiya was required to be interrogated to ascertain the identity of other persons.
The police told the court that slogans were raised against the Indian Army and in favour of Pakistan, Afzal Guru and Maqbool Bhat, who was hanged in 1984 in a murder case.
During the hearing, the police played the video footage of the event before Metropolitan Magistrate Lovleen on a computer and asked Kanhaiya "which 'Azaadi' (freedom) are they seeking?"
The court asked this when several persons were seen in the video footage shouting slogans demanding freedom of Kashmir from India.
To this, Kanhaiya said he did not know each one of them as some of them were outsiders and not from the Jawaharlal Nehru University.
While watching the footage, the court at one point observed "It appears they are sad with the fact that they are in India."
During the hearing, the police claimed in court that five other co-accused - Omar Khalid, Anant Prakash, Rama Naga, Ashutosh and Anirban - are absconding from the JNU campus. It said that eyewitness, Sandeep Kumar, who is a security guard in JNU, has said he had seen Kanhaiya shouting anti-India slogan during the event.
Kanhaiya, who himself argued during the hearing, told the magistrate that he was nowhere involved in any anti-India sloganeering and had rushed to the spot only to intervene in the clash between the ABVP workers and the persons organising the event.
"I was not the organiser of event, nor was I there. I went there because I am the President of JNU students union and there was a clash. This is a media trial. I have full faith in the judiciary," Kanhaiya, who was seen having tears in his eyes, said during the hearing.
He claimed that this was a political case and he was being framed by the police just because he had defeated the ABVP candidate in the presidential poll of JNU students union.
"I disassociate myself with the sloganeering. I have full faith in the Constitution of India and I have always said that Kashmir is an integral part of India," he told the court.