The Delhi government on Wednesday sought before a court a month’s time to decide whether to grant sanction to prosecute former JNU students union president Kanhaiya Kumar and others in the 2016 JNU sedition case.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Deepak Sherawat directed the AAP government to file a “proper reply”, citing a definite time frame.
DCP of Special Cell of the Delhi Police Pramod Kushwaha had told the court that they had sent a request to the Delhi government seeking sanction and that sanction was an administrative action and the charge sheet could be filed without that.
The Delhi Police had told the court that the authorities were yet to give requisite sanction to prosecute Kumar and others in the case, and it would take two to three months to procure sanction.
On January 14, the police filed the charge sheet in the court against Kumar and others, saying he was leading a procession and supported seditious slogans raised on the JNU campus during an event on February 9, 2016.