The police report, submitted to the MHA, states that the Democratic Students' Union was behind the February 9 protest.

Demanding beef in the hostel mess and worshipping 'Mahisasur' (a demon) are among the anti-national activities of the students listed by Delhi Police in a report on the controversial event organised in the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) to commemorate the death anniversary of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru.

The report submitted to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) states that extreme Left group - the Democratic Student's Union (DSU) - was behind the protest on February 9. Along with DSU the report also mentions Democratic Student's Front that has been involved in "anti-national activities" in JNU in the past.

Mentioning that the two "hidden groups have been volatile and reactive on various issues," Delhi Police has listed their antinational activities, including the mourning of Afzal Guru and celebrating the killing of CRPF jawans by Maoists in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh in 2010.

"They worshipped Mahisasur in place of Goddess Durga during Navratri festival. They invited Kashmiri separatist leader Geelani for a meeting and asked for beef in the hostel mess," the report states.

Members of the DSU organised the event and raised anti-India slogans but the Delhi Police arrested Kanhaiya Kumar, president of JNU students union on February 12, on charges of sedition. The action followed Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh's comment that anti-national activities will not be tolerated as he reacted to the incident on JNU campus last week.

Sources in the security establishment felt that Kumar's arrest seems to be a decision taken in a hurried manner. Even the Delhi Police report on the incident suggests that it was DSU members that instigated the crowd. Explaining the sequence of events, the report says that DSU members, under the leadership of Umar Khalid, convener, DSU bought with them equipment to show a documentary on the history of occupation in Kashmir. "Since JNU administration denied screening of the film, DSU activists started to raise slogans and sing songs supporting Afzal Guru and Maqbool Bhat," the report says. Both were Kashmiri militants who were hanged for carrying out terrorists attacks

Even though the Delhi Police report mentions that Kumar was present during this protest, certain intelligence inputs indicate that he was being a mediator to pacify the situation.

"DSU is a front organisation for Maoists and Kumar belongs to AISF, the student wing of the Communist Party of India. Traditionally, a Left political party and Maoists cannot share the same platform," said a MHA official.

The Special Branch of Delhi Police, that has prepared the report, says nine students from DSU and 10 from DSF have been identified as those indulging in anti-national and anti-social activities. The report mentions their names. "Sometimes they discreetly prepare nude and objectionable posters of deities and affix them on walls," the report says.

The report further states that a police officer has been posted in JNU in plain clothes to keep a watch on the situation.

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