JNU sedition case: Delhi govt tells court chargesheet filed in a ‘hasty, secretive manner’
From left: Kanhaiya Kumar, Anirban Bhattacharya and Umar Khalid.
New Delhi: The Delhi government, on Friday, informed a court that the Delhi Police filed the chargesheet in the 2016 Jawaharlal Nehru University sedition case in a “hasty” and “secretive manner” and it will take over a month to decide whether to grant sanction to prosecute former JNU Students’ Union president Kanhaiya Kumar in the case.
The submission was made by the AAP government to the chief metropolitan magistrate, Deepak Sherawat, it also accused the police for filling the chargesheet without obtaining the required sanction from the authorities.
Earlier, the court directed the state government to file a “proper reply” in the specific time-frame given. The Delhi Police special cell deputy commissioner, Pramod Kushwaha, had told the court that the police has already sent a request to the Delhi government seeking sanction and added sanction was an administrative action and the chargesheet can be filed without that.
The police filed a chargesheet in the court against Kumar and others, on January 14, claiming that he was leading a procession and supported seditious slogans raised in the JNU campus during an event on February 9, 2016.
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