The Delhi government on Friday sanctioned the Delhi Police Special Cell to probe the sedition case against former Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar. A CPI leader who unsuccessfully contested a Lok Sabha seat from Bihar, Kanhaiya Kumar is currently campaigning for his party ahead of the Assembly elections.
In the complaint against him and other members of JNUSU at the time, Kumar has been accused of issuing seditious slogans. The involvement of Umar Khalid, Anirban, Aakib Hussain, Mujib, Amar Gul, Bashrat Ali and Khalid Basir, in this case, will also be probed by the Delhi Police Special Cell.
A case was registered against Kumar and the others under sections 124-A and 120B of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) at the Vasant Kunj police station in 2016. A charge sheet was filed in connection with the case on January 14, 2019. The then members of JNUSU were accused of raising anti-national slogans in the JNU campus on February 9, 2016. Kanhaiya Kumar was arrested four days later after videos of the alleged incident went into wide circulation on social media platforms.
Earlier this month, Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Purushottam Pathak directed the Delhi Police to send a reminder to the government of the day in the national capital to prosecute the former JNUSU president. This direction was issued after the police told the court that the permission to probe the allegations against Kumar and the others were pending with the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (GNCTD).
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