A court here on Monday directed the Delhi Police to offer copies of blotter to former Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar and 9 others during a 2016 sedition case.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Pankaj Sharma put up the matter for April 7 to scrutinise documents within the case and also granted bail to seven accused who weren’t arrested within the case earlier.
The seven accused include Aquib, Mujeeb, Umar Gul, Rayees Rasool, Basharat Ali, Khalid Basheer who weren’t arrested before filing of blotter.
They moved bail applications after which the court granted them bail on a private bond of Rs 25,000 and a surety of a like amount.
Kumar, Umar Khalid (who is already in custody in Delhi riots case), Anirban and 7 others were present in court in pursuance to summons issued by the court after taking cognisance of the blotter .
Kumar et al. , including former JNU students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, were accused of raising anti-India slogans.
The other seven accused charge sheeted within the case are Kashmiri students Aquib Hussain, Mujeeb Hussain, Muneeb Hussain, Umar Gul, Rayeea Rassol, Bashir Bhat and Basharat, a number of them were then studying in JNU, Aligarh Muslim University and Jamia Millia Islamia.
The accused are charged with offences under sections 124A (sedition), 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt), 471 (using as genuine a forged document or electronic record), 143 (punishment for being a member of an unlawful assembly), 149 (being a member of an unlawful assembly), 147 (punishment for rioting) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian legal code (IPC).
