Protests at top Indian university after student leader's arrest on sedition charges

NEW DELHI — Massive protests paralysed one of India's top universities, after the president of the student union was arrested on charges of sedition.

Kanhaiya Kumar was arrested on Friday over a demonstration days earlier at Jawaharlal Nehru University to mark the anniversary of the 2013 execution of Afzal Guru, a Kashmiri man convicted of an attack on India's Parliament.

A student faction linked to the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party filed a police complaint, and Kumar was arrested amid allegations that anti-India slogans were used at the demonstration.