New Delhi: Patiala court on Monday directed Delhi police to provide charge sheet and related documents to former CPI leader Kanhaiya Kumar and other accused in the JNU sedition case. The court has also granted bail to six accused on furnishing a bond of Rs 25,000. The court has put up the matter for April 7 for scrutiny of documents.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Dr Pankaj Sharma directed police to provide the charge sheet and related documents to them. The court, on the last date of hearing, after taking cognisance on the charge sheet had issued summons to all accused named in the Delhi Police charge sheet.
Advocate Sushil Bajaj, appearing for former JNU student Kumar, said, "The court pronounced bail for Kumar seeing his social responsibilities. The court will hear the matter later."
Kumar and other former JNU students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya were accused of raising anti-India slogans. The other seven accused charge-sheeted in the case are Kashmiri students Aquib Hussain, Mujeeb Hussain, Muneeb Hussain, Umar Gul, Rayeea Rassol, Bashir Bhat and Basharat, some of them were then studying in JNU, Aligarh Muslim University and Jamia Millia Islamia.
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The court granted bail to six accused on furnishing a bond of Rs 25,000. Kumar, Khalid and Bhattacharya were already granted bail by the court.