AMN /
Delhi High Court today granted interim conditional bail to the JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar for six months in a sedition case. The Court asked him not to participate actively or passively in any activity which may be termed as anti-national.
It also enjoined on him, as president of JNU students union, that he will make all efforts within his power to control anti-national activities in the University campus. A bench of Justice Pratibha Rani said, Kanhaiya has to cooperate in the ongoing investigation and has to present himself before the investigators as and when required.
It asked him to furnish a personal bond of 10,000 rupees and a surety of like amount. The high court made it clear that a JNU faculty member has to stand as surety for Kanhaiya. Further, it said that the accused has to furnish an undertaking that he will not violate any of the conditions mentioned in the bail order.
Kanhaiya, who is presently lodged in Tihar jail under judicial custody, was arrested on February 12th in connection with the sedition case. Kanhaiya and others, including two arrested JNU students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, are accused of raising anti-India slogans during an event organised inside the JNU campus on February 9th.
Kanhaiya had sought bail claiming that he had not raised any anti-India slogans but the Delhi Police had maintained before the high court that they have evidence to show that the accused had raised anti-national slogans. The two other students who were arrested are in 14 days judicial custody.