{"id":308102,"date":"2019-01-15T11:12:16","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T11:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=308102"},"modified":"2019-01-15T11:31:55","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T11:31:55","slug":"court-fixes-january-19-to-consider-chargesheet-in-jnu-sedition-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/court-fixes-january-19-to-consider-chargesheet-in-jnu-sedition-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Court fixes January 19 to consider chargesheet in JNU sedition case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-308059 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/kanhaiya-kumar-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"573\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/kanhaiya-kumar-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/kanhaiya-kumar.jpg 598w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 573px) 100vw, 573px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A Delhi court on Tuesday fixed January 19 as the date for the consideration of the charge sheet filed against former Jawaharlal Nehru University Students&#8217; Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar and others in the 2016 JNU sedition case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The hearing was adjourned as\u00a0Chief Metropolitan Magistrate\u00a0Deepak Sherawat, who was scheduled to hear the matter, was on leave on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Monday, the Delhi Police filed a chargesheet against Kanhaiya Kumar and others in a sedition case lodged in 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Moreover, the Delhi Police charged former students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya for allegedly shouting anti-India slogans during an event organised at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus in February 2016 to commemorate the hanging of Afzal Guru, the mastermind of Parliament-attack.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A protest was held in JNU in February 2016, against death sentence given to Afzal Guru during which anti-national slogans were raised.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Delhi court on Tuesday fixed January 19 as the date for the consideration of the charge sheet filed against former Jawaharlal Nehru University Students&#8217; Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar and others in the 2016 JNU sedition case. The hearing was adjourned as\u00a0Chief Metropolitan Magistrate\u00a0Deepak Sherawat, who was scheduled to hear the matter, was on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":308059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,36,2009,2014],"tags":[10601,10600,5061,5099],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308106,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308102\/revisions\/308106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/308059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}