Govt asked to file report on sedition case

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Updated At : 12:15 PM Feb 20, 2020 IST

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New Delhi, February 19

A court here on Wednesday directed the Delhi Government to file a status report till April 3 on the issue of sanctions to prosecute former JNU Students’ Union president Kanhaiya Kumar and others in a sedition case.

Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Purushottam Pathak also directed the police to send a reminder to the city government seeking requisite sanctions to prosecute Kumar. The court passed the directions after police submitted that permission to prosecute Kumar and others has not been granted yet and the letter requesting sanction is pending with the government

On January 14, the police had filed a chargesheet in the court against Kumar and other JNU students, saying they supported seditious slogans during an event on February 9, 2016. — PTI

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