Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union leader Kanhaiya Kumar, who was arrested on sedition charges last week, may not have raised anti-national slogans or made an inflammatory speech at the event that is at the centre of a raging controversy, according to inputs from security agencies.

Home Ministry officials have suggested that slapping of the serious charge of sedition against Kumar could be an act of “over enthusiasm” on the part of some Delhi Police officers, PTI reported.

Security agencies have conveyed to the Home Ministry that even though Kumar was present at the event commemorating the death of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, he possibly did not raise any anti-India slogan nor did he speak anything anti-national that invites the charge of sedition.

Officials said the anti-India slogans were raised by students belonging to Democratic Students Union, considered to be a front of CPI (Maoist).

Kumar belongs to All India Students Federation, the students wing of the Communist Party of India, while DSU is an extreme left group.

Besides, names of only DSU leaders were printed in the posters which were pasted in JNU campus, inviting the students to the event commemorating the death of Afzal Guru.

Security agencies told the Home Ministry officials that Kumar did deliver a speech but it could not be considered as anti-national, they said.

Slapping of sedition charge against Kumar could be an act of “over enthusiastic” police officers, officials said.