The Delhi high court is likely to hear JNU Students’ Union president Kanhaiya Kumar’s bail plea on Tuesday.
The Delhi high court is likely to hear JNU Students’ Union president Kanhaiya Kumar’s bail plea on Tuesday. In his bail plea he has contended that he was “falsely implicated” and booked in a sedition case.
His counsel said all defects in his petition pointed out on Friday by the registry have been rectified and the legal team would press that he was wrongly arrested on the basis of an FIR which was devoid of evidence to book him under such a serious charge.
The counsel said the petition is limited to bail for Mr Kanhaiya Kumar who was arrested on February 12.
Mr Kumar has sought bail claiming he was falsely implicated as he had never raised any anti-national slogans during an event organised at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on February 9. In the plea he has also claimed that no case is made out against him as there is no evidence.
Mr Kumar had approached the high court after the Supreme Court had directed him to first approach the high court because if the apex court went into the matter straightaway it would set a “dangerous precedent”.
Escorted by the police, Mr Kanhaiya Kumar’s lawyers, Sushil Bajaj and Vrinda Grover, had thereafter rushed to the high court registrar on Friday and mentioned the petition when certain deficiencies were pointed out in it.
Security at the high court was beefed up on Friday as it is not far away from the Patiala House courts complex which was the scene of attacks on Mr Kumar and journalists by a group of unruly lawyers on Monday and Wednesday.
Mr Kumar, who is in judicial custody till March 2, had approached the apex court directly seeking bail on the ground that his life was under threat in Tihar Jail. He was arrested on February 12 on sedition charges following a controversial event on the JNU campus where anti-India slogans were allegedly raised.
