New Delhi: A Delhi Court on Wednesday adjourned the proceedings of the JNU Sedition case and asked the city police to procure sanctions by February 28 to prosecute former Jawaharlal Nehru University student leaders Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya accused of sedition.
On January 19, the court had criticised the Delhi Police for filing a charge sheet in the 2016 case without the approval of the Delhi government.
The JNU Sedition case is related to accusations against former JNU Students Union President Kanhaiya Kumar and others in connection with anti-India slogans allegedly raised in the campus during a demonstration.
The Delhi Police had filed a charge sheet against Kumar for leading a procession and supported seditious slogans raised on the varsity campus on February 9, 2016, at an event to commemorate the hanging of Parliament attack mastermind Afzal Guru.
Last month, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had said the law department was examining the Delhi Police’s file seeking sanction for prosecution.
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