"In the courtroom, the judge asked to show the video of the February 9 incident. He remarked that the boy (me) is not seen as shouting slogans in the video, the IO responded saying that he had sufficient evidence against me and I have even been to Kashmir," Kanhaiya says in his recently published memoir "Kanhaiya Kumar-From Bihar to Tihar".
"I laughed a little to myself when I heard this exchange. It's true what they say. One can find humour in the most unlikely of places," he adds.
"By now I was beginning to get the feeling that something was seriously wrong. On what grounds had I been arrested, I asked them. Where was the warrant? They replied- 'you will get the warrant in jail. There, you'll get everything'," he adds.
Kanhaiya recalls how 20 days in jail seemed like a "lifetime" to him and how he felt like he was addressing the nation when he made a speech at the university's administration block which is now known as "Freedom Square".
In the book, he has talked about his journey from a nondescript Bihar village to Tihar jail and the February 9 incident which catapulted him to the centre stage of student's politics.
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