A Delhi Court has taken cognisance of a charge sheetfiled against former JNU Students Union President Kanhaiya Kumar and nineothers in the 2016 sedition case
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Pankaj Sharma hassummoned them on March 15.
The cognisance has been taken exactly one year after theDelhi government granted sanction to the Delhi Police to prosecute the accused.
Besides Kanhaiya, others include former JNU students UmarKhalid, Anirban Bhattacharya, Kashmiri students Aquib Hussain, Mujeeb Hussain,Muneeb Hussain, Umar Gul, Rayeea Rassol, Bashir Bhat and Basharat Ali.
On February 9, 2016, "anti-national" sloganswere allegedly raised at the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus during aprogramme called to protest against the execution of Parliament attack convictAfzal Guru on his death anniversary.
The 1,200-page charge sheet states that the RegionalForensic Science Laboratory (RFSL) retrieved the SMS sent by Umar Khalid toKanhaiya Kumar to arrive at Sabarmati Dhaba, JNU, as their permission (to holdthe protest) had been cancelled by the University administration.
The final pages of the charge sheet also confirm thepresence of Kashmiri students during the protest and that they were in contactwith Umar Khalid.