Sedition charge

12 Feb 2016

In power

BJP — Delhi Police

Acted

Police, Delhi

Under

Section 124A IPC

Kanhaiya Kumar was arrested on the JNU campus on 12 February, according to The Wire and Al Jazeera, and a Metropolitan Magistrate at Patiala House Courts remanded him to three days' police custody the same day. The LiveLaw summary of his bail petition gives the arrest date as 11 February. The High Court's bail order records that he was remanded to police custody three times, and that he denied making seditious utterances or raising anti-national slogans. On 17 February his judicial custody was extended until 2 March, and he was released from Tihar Jail on 3 March after furnishing the bail bond. [2][3][4][5][6][1][7]

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