Some of the journalists are believed to have called up Umar Khalid and other absconding students before or after the incident

The police, who have failed to trace JNU student Umar Khalid and others charged with sedition, seemed to have shifted focus on to journalists who had reported the incident at the university. Throughout Sunday, police teams went about calling journalists or going to their residence to question them. Most of these journalists, which include women, report on education or crime and have been covering the episode.