NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday granted interim bail for six months to JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar but said the FIR lodged in connection with an on-campus event that led to his arrest on sedition charge suggested it “is a case of raising anti-national slogans which do have the effect of threatening national integrity”.
The high court, which gave conditional relief to Kanhaiya, said he will “not participate actively or passively in any activity which may be termed as anti-national” and told him that as president of JNU students union, he “will make all efforts within his power to control anti-national activities in the campus.” It also made strong remarks about the slogans allegedly raised by the students, including other accused, saying they cannot claim protection under fundamental right to speech and expression, particularly in view of the fact that the investigation into the case was at a nascent stage.
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