Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said the Delhi Government’s Law Department is examining to grant sanction for the prosecution of former president of Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) Kanhaiya Kumar in a sedition case.
Kejriwal, however, accused the Centre of committing a bigger sedition by creating hurdles in the works of Delhi Government.
“I do not know whether Kanhaiya has committed sedition or not, which is being examined by the Law department. On the other hand, Modi ji has stalled (works on) schools for children, hospitals, installation of CCTV cameras, setting up of mohalla clinics in Delhi — is this not sedition?” Kejriwal said in a tweet in Hindi.
The AAP-led Delhi Government is seeking legal advice with regard to granting sanction for prosecution in the JNU sedition case.
Last week, the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Delhi Police had traded allegations after a court questioned filing of a chargesheet in the sedition case against former JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar and nine others without procuring required sanction from authorities.
The Delhi Government sources said rules laid down by the court for sanction of prosecution will be followed. Police had filed the chargesheet on January 14, saying the sanction for prosecution was pending with the Government.
“Why did you file (the chargesheet) without approval? You do not have a legal department,” court had asked the Delhi Police on Saturday.
According to the chargesheet, Kumar was leading a procession and supported seditious slogans raised on the JNU campus during an event on February 9, 2016.
Former JNU students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya were also charged with allegedly shouting anti-India slogans during the event to mark the hanging of Parliament attack mastermind Afzal Guru.
The event had taken place despite the university administration cancelling the permission for the same following a complaint by the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, which had termed it “anti-national”.