The Delhi High Court today refused to entertain a plea seeking action against JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar for allegedly making ‘anti-national’ remarks after being released on interim bail in a > sedition case lodged against him .
Justice Pratibha Rani declined to give the direction sought by a social activist on the ground that there was law and order in place which would take care of any anti-national slogans being raised, and that the petitioner need not worry about the image of the nation.
It also questioned the locus of the petitioner for filing the petition. The petitioner had sought direction to take necessary action on the sedition allegedly committed by Kanhaiya, and to refer the matter for further investigation by Intelligence Bureau.
The court also sought the presence of petitioner Dev Dutt Sharma so that he was aware of the cost which may be imposed on him for filing this writ petition.
Following this, advocate Sugriva Dubey wished to withdraw the petition and the court treated it as withdrawn.
The petition alleged that after being released from judicial custody, Kanhaiya had again indulged in anti-national slogans and used the word “azadi” at least 100 times > in his speech recently .
> Kanhaiya was granted interim bail for six months by the high court on March 2 in the sedition case.
JNU students > Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, arrested in the sedition case over a controversial event in the varsity’s campus, are presently in judicial custody.
Published - March 15, 2016 03:45 pm IST
