May 24, 2025 03:10 am (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
'India has every right to defend itself against terrorism': Germany on Operation Sindoor | Trump administration bans Harvard University from enrolling international students | ED accuses Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi of cheating, money laundering in National Herald case | 'Russia, Ukraine will immediately start negotiations for ceasefire': Donald Trump after call with Putin | 'Jill and I have learned that we are strongest in the broken places': Joe Biden on cancer diagnosis | Rahul Gandhi targets Jaishankar over Op. Sindoor again, BJP says LoP speaking Pak language | Supreme Court orders SIT probe into Madhya Pradesh minister's remarks on Colonel Sofiya Qureshi | Bengaluru: Woman killed after wall collapses on her after heavy rainfall | Pak forces targeted Golden Temple after India conducted Operation Sindoor: Army | YouTuber Jyoti Malhotra, arrested for 'espionage', travelled to Pakistan ahead of Pahalgam attack

Delhi govt gives prosecution sanction to try Kanhaiya Kumar and others in 2016 sedition case

| @indiablooms | Feb 28, 2020, at 08:34 pm

New Delhi/IBNS: The Delhi government has finally given its nod to prosecute former Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union president Kanhaiya Kumar and others in a 2016 sedition case, media reports said.

The file seeking permission of the Delhi government had been pending with the home department since May 5 last year.

On January 12, last year, police had sought the government's sanction just two hours before filing the chargesheet, official records show, said an Indian Express report.

In the absence of prosecution sanction, the court has been delaying taking cognizance of the chargesheet, the report added.

In the chargesheet, the police had said Kanhaiya Kumar had supported seditious slogans during an event on Feb 9, 2017 on the JNU campus. Other  JNU students Umar Khalid, Anirban Bhattacharya and some other students were also chargesheeted for shouting anti-India slogans during an event to mark the hanging of Afzal Guru in 2001 in parliament attack case.

Delhi's Home Department comes under Cabinet Minister Satyendra Jain where the file was pending from past 1 year.

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.
Close menu