Delhi Police sanctioned to prosecute Kanhaiya Kumar in JNU sedition case
Delhi Police has received state government’s nod for prosecuting former JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar and two others in connection with a 2016 sedition case, reported PTI on Friday. They were accused of supporting seditious slogans during an event in JNU campus on February 9, 2016.
Delhi Police has received the state government’s nod for prosecuting former JNUSU president and CPI leader Kanhaiya Kumar and two others in connection with a 2016 sedition case, reported news agency PTI on Friday (February 28).
On January 14 last year, police had filed a charge sheet against Kumar and others, including former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya.
Kumar and the other student union leaders were accused of supporting seditious and ‘anti-India’ slogans during an event in the JNU campus on February 9, 2016. Kumar was arrested on February 12.
In the parliamentary elections held last year, Kumar had contested unsuccessfully against BJP’s Giriraj Singh from Bihar’s Begusarai constituency.
(With inputs from agencies)
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