‘Wrote to cops for security three times, didn’t get any’

NEW DELHI: JNU PHD scholar Umar Khalid said on Tuesday that he had written to the Delhi Police thrice, seeking security but is yet to get any.

On Monday, an unidentified man had allegedly attempted to shoot him outside the Constitution Club, just 500 metres from Parliament House.

The student leader, who was one of the Jawaharlal Nehru University students police arrested in February 2016 for allegedly raising seditious slogans, remained at his south Delhi residence on Tuesday and said he would meet the police only if they provided him a police vehicle.

Khalid said he was “surprised” that he hasn’t received security despite receiving “multiple threats”, not to mention attempt on his life just 24 hours ago.

On Monday , Khalid survived an attempt on life after his friends rescued him from an unidentified man .

“It takes one bullet to kill anyone. It does not matter if it is fired from gangster Ravi Pujari’s or Amit Jani’s gun. My three applications requesting security are pending with the police. In March 2016, I wrote the first application. I again wrote to them two months ago and then, the third one, last week. Are they waiting for a repeat of a Gauri Lankesh case (assassination)?,” Khalid said.

In February 2016, Khalid’s father, Syed Qasim Illyas Rasool, filed a police complaint alleging that gangster Ravi Pujari, an alleged aide of underworld don Chhota Rajan, had made death threats over the phone.

Amit Jani is a self styled leader of a group called Uttar Pradesh Navnirman Sena. Jani was arrested in April 2016 for threatening to kill Khalid and former JNU Students Union president Kanhaiya Kumar.

On Tuesday , Khalid remained at his parents home in Okhla. “Police called me today. I asked them to send me a police vehicle. Since then, they have not responded,” he said. Police denied not attending to Khalid’s request. Special commissioner of police (special cell) MM Oberoi said Khalid was requested eight times to appear before a police team.