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Police files chargesheet against Kanhaiya Kumar, others

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New Delhi: The Delhi Police filed a chargesheet on Monday against former Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar and others in a sedition case lodged in 2016.
The police also charged former JNU students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya for allegedly shouting anti-India slogans during an event on the university campus on February 9, 2016 to commemorate the hanging of Parliament-attack mastermind Afzal Guru.
The others chargesheeted in the case are Kashmiri students AquibHussain, MujeebHussain, MuneebHussain, Umar Gul, RayeeaRassol, Bashir Bhat and Basharat.
As many as 36 others, including Communist Party of India (CPI) leader D Raja’s daughter Aprajita, Shehla Rashid (then vice-president of the JNUSU), Rama Naga, Ashutosh Kumar and BanojyotsnaLahiri have been named in column 12 of the chargesheet due to insufficient evidence against them, police sources said.
Metropolitan Magistrate SumitAnand put up the chargesheet for consideration before a competent court on Tuesday.
The accused have been charged with offences under sections 124A (sedition), 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt), 465 (punishment for forgery), 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 Penal Code (IPC).
The chargesheet also contains CCTV footage, mobile footage and documentary evidence.
The police has alleged that Kumar had incited the mob to shout anti-India slogans.
A case was registered on February 11, 2016 under sections 124A and 120B of the IPC against unidentified persons at the VasantKunj (North) police station, following complaints from BharatiyaJanata Party (BJP) MP MaheishGirri and the AkhilBharatiyaVidyarthiParishad (ABVP).
The said event had taken place despite the university administration cancelling the permission, following a complaint from the ABVP, which had termed it as “anti-national”. (PTI)


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