The Indian government sought to explain its crackdown on allegedly "seditious" elements in Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University last week by claiming that the students who raised "anti-national" slogans were somehow supported by Lashkar-e-Taiba chief and wanted terrorist Hafiz Saeed.
That claim was widely ridiculed, after many realised that it might actually have come from a fake Twitter account that had caught the attention of the Delhi Police. Nevertheless, Indian authorities doubled down on the claim and insisted that the information had come as inputs from "security agencies".
Now there's a source that might be more authoritative, according to ANI as well as Pakistani journalist Omar Quraishi.
A YouTube account called JUD videos, referring to Jamaat-ud-Dawa (the name the LeT took after it was banned), has put out what appears to be a video of Saeed himself responding to the Indian government's claims.
"Learning about the Indian government's claims about me being involved with these incidents I was surprised, because I neither tweeted anything and this account referred is also fake," Saeed said. "I haven't said anything about this. This has become such a big thing in that the Home Minister himself has blamed it on me because of this tweet. It troubles me that Kashmir's freedom is seen in such a way by India... Can the Kashmiri people not speak of their own freedom?"
Saeed, who is believed to have been responsible for the recent Pathankot attacks as well as the 2008 Mumbai attacks, is almost openly gloating in the video about India's insistence on blaming him for what is going on within the country.
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