The Delhi High Court has granted bail to Kanhaiya Kumar, the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union President in the sedition case.
The court has given him six months’ interim bail, subject to the outcome of the investigation. Kanhaiya, presently lodged in Tihar jail under judicial custody, has been asked by Justice Pratibha Rani to furnish a personal bond of Rs 10,000.
The bail conditions include:
- A JNU faculty member has to stand as surety for Kanhaiya.
- He cannot be part of any political activity during this term period.
- The accused has to furnish an undertaking that he will not violate any of the conditions mentioned in the bail order.
But it is possible that he might not be released on Wednesday, considering the order has come around sunset and it might take time to process the paperwork.
Kanhaiya Kumar’s lawyer Vrinda Grover has welcomed this order. Speaking to CNN-IBN, Grover said,
Even as the petition was under consideration, more evidence is now available in the public domain. But what needs to be investigated is who was trying to falsely implicate Kanhaiya.
Kanhaiya was arrested on 12 February and was accused of raising anti-India slogans during an event organised inside the JNU campus on 9 February. Two other students, Umar Khaled and Anirban Bhattacharya, were also arrested later and sent to 14 days of judicial custody.
The Delhi Police which opposed Kanhaiya’s bail plea continued to maintain that there is evidence to show that Kanhaiya had raised anti-national slogans.
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