Need more than a month to decide on Kanhaiya charge sheet, Delhi govt tells court
New Delhi, Apr 5 (IBNS): The Delhi government on Friday said it would take more than a month to decide whether to sanction and prosecute former JNU students' union president Kanhaiya Kumar in the 2016 sedition case.
The AAP government also said the police had filed the charge sheet hastily and in a "secretive manner", a report by the news agency PTI said.
Kanhaiya is the Left Front's candidate from Bihar's Begusarai seat in the coming Lok Sabha elections. This will be the former JNU students' union president's debut in electoral politics.
On Wednesday, a Delhi court had granted more time to the Arvind Kejriwal government to file sanction in the charge sheet filed against Kanhaiya Kumar and others in the case.
Delhi Police filed a charge sheet before the court on January 14 in connection with the sedition case against JNU students Kanhaiya Kumar and others for allegedly raising anti-India slogans. The other prominent names in the charge sheet are Anirban Bhattacharya and Syed Umar Khalid.
A protest was held in the JNU on February 9, 2016 against death sentence given to Afzal Guru and Maqbool Bhat during which anti-national slogans were allegedly raised.
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