JNU: Students' counsel says criticism not sedition, Court reserves order

Mar 16, 2016, at 08:19 pm

New Delhi, Mar 16 (IBNS) The counsel of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya on Wednesday argued that criticism of government can't be termed as sedition, even as the Patiala House court reserved order on their bail plea for March 18.

Provocative slogans were raised by outsiders at JNU: Probe panel

Mar 16, 2016, at 05:01 pm

New Delhi, Mar 16 (IBNS) Provocative slogans were raised by outsiders on Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus on February 9, a high-level inquiry committee of the university has reported, observing that it was "unfortunate" that the students allowed that to happen.

JNU crackdown: Sitaram Yechury meets Rajnath Singh

Feb 13, 2016, at 06:38 pm

New Delhi, Feb 13 (IBNS): Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Saturday met Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and urged him to not persecute the innocent students of the JNU over the anti-India slogans by few, after the students' union leader of the premier varsity was arrested and slapped sedition charges.

Anti-India slogan: JNU on the boil, police cracks down on campus

Feb 13, 2016, at 05:03 pm

New Delhi, Feb 13 (IBNS): Several students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi have been barred from academic activities over the incident of anti-India slogans within the campus in support of hanged Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, said reports, even as tension ran high on the campus after a students' union leader was arrested over sedition charges and police searched for more student suspects in the slogan shouting.