New Delhi: Delhi’s Patiala House Court on Monday (March 15) granted bail to seven accused within the 2016 Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) sedition case.
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Pankaj Sharma ordered the prosecution to provide the copy of the chargesheet and different paperwork to all accused within the JNU case.
The court docket granted bail to Aquib Hussain, Mujeeb Hussain Gattoo, Muneeb Hussain Gattoo, Umar Gul, Rayeea Rassol, Khalid Bashir Bhat and Basharat Ali on private bond of Rs 25,000.
“We order for supply of charge sheets. Let the charge sheet be supplied to all the accused persons today,” mentioned Pankaj Sharma.
Prime accused Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya have been already given bail by the court docket within the matter.
Earlier, final month, the court docket had studied the detailed charge-sheet filed by the police within the case, by which Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid and eight others are the accused.
The case goes again to February 9, 2016, when ‘anti-national’ slogans have been allegedly raised throughout a staged protest, which was referred to as towards the demise sentence of convict within the 2002 Parliament assault, Afzal Guru.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Pankaj Sharma on Monday took cognisance of the offences, which incorporates 124A (sedition), 323 (voluntarily inflicting damage), 465 (forgery), 471 (utilizing cast doc), 143 (punishment for illegal meeting), 149 (member of illegal meeting), 147 (rioting) and 120B (prison conspiracy).
“After careful perusal of the charge sheet and consideration of the material, all the accused persons mentioned herein above are summoned to face trial for the offence. Accused persons be summoned for 15.03.2021,” the choose acknowledged within the order.
The cost sheet filed by the police is about 1,200-page and consists of the names of those accused. One of the first evidences is the SMS despatched by Umar Khalid to Kanhaiya Kumar to arrive at Sabarmati Dhaba in JNU campus, which was retrieved by the Regional Forensic Science Laboratory (RFSL). The SMS acknowledged that the college administration has cancelled the permission for protest and had particulars of the brand new venue.
Towards the top of the cost sheet the police officers additionally confirmed the presence of Kashmiri college students in the course of the protest and that they have been involved with Umar Khalid all alongside.
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