Delhi government allows probe against former JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar

NEW DELHI: Arvind Kejriwal led government in Delhi has allowed Delhi Police Special Cell to go-ahead with sedition case against Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar. Kanhaiya was arrested in February 2016 and accused of sedition for allegedly doing nothing to prevent the raising of anti-India slogans on the JNU campus.

The case involves an event organised in the JNU campus in February 2016 against the hanging of Parliament-attack mastermind Afzal Guru where Kanhaiya and his comrades were accused of raising anti-India slogans.

The entire group is often known by “tukde-tukde gang.”

Kanhaiya had tweeted on the development:

https://twitter.com/kanhaiyakumar/status/1233420567023255552

In early February, the court had slammed the Delhi government for sitting on a file seeking clearance to prosecute former student leader Kanhaiya Kumar and nine others in a sedition case. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said the government is working on it. “The government is studying the charge sheet. The police took three years in filing it, and it is a lengthy charge sheet,” Kejriwal told the media. He also said the charge sheet was filed just before the election, which is also raising questions.

“They filed it without permission and before the election, this raise certain questions. It is important to study the charge sheet as per the law and the government will take any decisions accordingly,” he said.

The charges were slapped under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) dealing with sedition, voluntarily causing hurt, forgery, using as genuine a forged document, punishment for unlawful assembly, unlawful assembly with common object, rioting and criminal conspiracy.

Kanhaiya in an open letter had accused Modi for returning favours to those who financially paved his ascent to power. He said that no new jobs have been created, farmers are killing themselves, poor are increasingly becoming poorer, students can’t afford to study, those who do make it to the various universities face caste-based humiliation and discrimination.

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