The Delhi high court declined the plea of two private individuals seeking cancellation of the interim bail of JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar in a sedition case, saying nothing has been brought before it to show that the student leader had made any anti-national speech after his release.

Justice PS Teji dismissed the pleas saying, “no hindrance or obstruction” in the ongoing investigation in the case by the accused has been brought to the notice of the court by any party.

The high court further said it is for the investigating officer (IO) to decide whether or not to seek cancellation of bail on grounds of materials collected during investigation as the legal provision does not envisage any right upon a stranger to approach the court for cancelling bail.

Such a right has been conferred only on IO or under exceptional circumstances, it said.

The court refused to accept the petitioners’ contention that Kanhaiya has made any anti-national speech post bail. “Nothing has been brought forth to establish that such speeches were actually made or that the same were declared anti-national by any court of law,” the judge said, adding the investigating agency has also submitted that the “bail need not be cancelled”.