JNU sedition case: Delhi court takes cognisance of charge sheet against Kanhaiya Kumar, others
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Kanhaiya Kumar and others, together with former JNU college students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, have been accused of elevating anti-India slogans.
A court in Delhi has taken cognisance of a charge sheet filed by the Delhi Police against former Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar and 9 others in a 2016 sedition case and summoned them on March 15.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Pankaj Sharma on February 15 took cognisance of the ultimate report virtually a yr after the Delhi Police has obtained requisite sanctions to prosecute the accused within the case.
Mr. Kumar and others, together with former JNU college students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, have been accused of elevating anti-India slogans.
The different seven accused charge-sheeted within the case are Kashmiri college students Aquib Hussain, Mujeeb Hussain, Muneeb Hussain, Umar Gul, Rayeea Rassol, Bashir Bhat and Basharat, some of them have been then learning in JNU, Aligarh Muslim University and Jamia Millia Islamia.
“Charge sheet along with documents perused. The Court hereby takes cognisance of offence under Section 124 A/323/465/471/143/147/149/120B IPC. The sanction to prosecute the aforementioned accused persons has already been filed by Home Department, GNCT vide order dated February 27, 2020,” the decide stated in a web-based listening to.
“After careful perusal of the charge sheet and consideration of the material, all the accused persons mentioned herein above are summoned to face trial for the offence under Section 124A/323/465/471/143/147/149/120B of IPC. Accused persons be summoned through investigating officer for March 15. Copy of this order be also sent to all the parties through email/Whatsapp,” the decide stated.
The accused have been charged with offences beneath Sections 124A (sedition), 323 (punishment for voluntarily inflicting harm), 471 (utilizing as real a cast doc or digital document), 143 (punishment for being a member of an illegal meeting), 149 (being a member of an illegal meeting), 147 (punishment for rioting) and 120B (felony conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
As many as 36 others, together with Communist Party of India (CPI) chief D. Raja’s daughter Aprajita, Shehla Rashid (then vice-JNUSU president), Rama Naga, Ashutosh Mr. Kumar and Banojyotsna Lahiri, all former college students of JNU, have been named in column 12 of the charge sheet attributable to inadequate proof against them.
The most punishment for sedition is life imprisonment.
A case was registered on February 11, 2016 beneath Sections 124A and 120B of the IPC against unidentified folks on the Vasant Kunj (north) Police Station, following complaints from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Maheish Girri and the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the coed wing of the RSS.
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