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Court to hear JNU sedition case on January 19
The court put up the matter for hearing on the date as chief metropolitan magistrate Deepak Sherawat was on leave on Tuesday.
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Tuesday fixed January 19 for consideration of chargesheet against former Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar and others in the 2016 JNU sedition case.
The court put up the matter for hearing on the date as chief metropolitan magistrate Deepak Sherawat was on leave on Tuesday.
The Delhi police had on Monday filed a chargesheet at a city court against Kanhaiya Kumar and others, saying he was leading a procession and supported seditious slogans raised on the varsity campus in February 2016.
The police also char-ged former JNU students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya for allegedly shouting anti-India slogans during an event on the university’s campus on February 9, 2016, to commemorate the hanging of Parliament-attack mastermind Afzal Guru.
The police has claimed before the court that Mr Kumar had raised anti-India slogans in 2016 “to incite hatred and disaffection towards the government”.
The police cited statements of various witnesses in its charge sheet to state that Mr Kumar was walking along with the protesters where a number of unidentified persons were raising slogans during the event.
