Hours after two Jawaharlal Nehru University students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya surrendered to the police for sedition charges, Khalid has reportedly confessed to chanting pro-Afzal Guru slogans.

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Did Umar Khalid organise the pro Afzal Guru event?

Umar Khalid has reportedly accepted that he did organise the event.

Who created posters supporting Afzal Guru?

Anirban Bhattacharya prepared the materials, including posters, distributing them among the students, according to media reports.

Were JNU students chanting pro-Afzal Guru?

Omar has, under police interrogation confessed to raising pro-Afzal slogans. Afzal Guru was convicted in 2001 Parliament attack, and received a judicial hanging in 2013.

Who else is expected to surrender?

According to reports, JNU students Rama Naga, Ashutosh Kumar and Anant Prakash, also accused of allegedly shouting anti-national slogans; will surrender before police today.

When did the surrender take place

The duo, who returned to the JNU campus last Sunday after having gone missing since February 12, drove from the administrative bloc to the main gate of the university, got into a Delhi Police vehicle and were taken to an undisclosed destination. Police sources said Khalid and Bhattacharya surrendered at around midnight.

There was no word from police as to where the two were taken. Khalid and Bhattacharya are likely to be produced before a magistrate soon.

HC asks police to conduct remand proceedings secretly so that arrested students -- Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya -- are not harmed. — Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) February 24, 2016

Khalid and Bhattacharya are among the five students who, along with JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar, had allegedly shouted anti-national slogans at an event organized in the university campus to mark the death anniversary of parliament attack convict Afzal Guru on February 9.

#EXCLUSIVE INTERROGATION DETAILS | Khalid and Anirban admitted that in past too Afzal Guru hanging was debated in JNU #KhalidSurrenders — CNN-IBN News (@ibnlive) February 24, 2016

Besides Kumar, Khalid and Bhattacharya, the other students are Rama Naga, Ashutosh Kumar and Anant Prakash.

Delhi Police had issued a look-out notice on February 20 against Khalid, Bhattacharya, Naga, Ashutosh and Prakash.

Earlier, Khalid and Bhattacharya left the JNU campus at around 1150 pm tonight for the surrender.

The university students formed a human chain to prevent the media from following Khalid and Bhattacharya when they were leaving the campus this evening.