UPDATED: March 15, 2021 12:00 IST Umar Khalid and Kanhaiya Kumar are among the 10 individuals who have been accused in the JNU sedition case. Ten people accused in the 2016 Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) sedition case have been produced in Delhi’s Patiala House Court on Monday. Soon after, the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Pankaj Sharma directed the Delhi Police to supply chargesheet and other case-related documents to Kanhaiya Kumar and all the other accused. Taking note of the chargesheet filed by the Delhi Police, the court had ordered all the accused including Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya to appear before it.
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Delhi Court Summons Kanhaiya Kumar, Others on March 16 in 2016 JNU Sedition Case The case has been delayed because the request for sanction to prosecute was pending before the Delhi government for a long time Kanhaiya Kumar. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Rights16/Feb/2021 New Delhi:Â Five years later, Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid and others who had faced sedition charges for a 2016 event on the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus will be facing trial and have been summoned by a Delhi court. The Delhi Police received sanction to prosecute from the Delhi government last year. The police chargesheet has claimed that Kumar and others led the procession in which “seditious” slogans were chanted. Other accused include Anirban Bhattacharya, Aquib Hussain, Mujeeb Hussain Gattoo, Muneeb Hussain Gattoo, Umar Gul, Rayees Rasool, Basharat Ali and Khalid Bashir Bhatt.