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New Delhi, Sep 25: Over 200 national and international scholars, academicians and artists have issued a statement seeking the release of former JNU student, Umar Khalid, who is under arrest for his alleged role in the north east Delhi riots.
Umar Khalid
The signatories include, linguist Noam Chomsky, authors Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, Arundhati Roy, Ramachandra Guha and Rajmohan Gandhi, filmmakers Mira Nair and Anand Patwardhan, historians Romila Thapar, Ramchandra Guha, and Irfan Habib, and activists Medha Patkar and Aruna Roy. They have termed the investigation by the Delhi Police as a…
