New Delhi: The Supreme Court will hear on Wednesday a writ petition seeking adequate protection to Kanhaiya Kumar, President of Jawarharlal Nehru University Students’ Union, and the journalists and others visiting the Patiala courts in connection with the sedition case registered by the Delhi Police.
A three-judge Bench of Chief Justice T.S. Thakur and Justices R. Banumathi and Uday Lalit agreed to hear on an urgent basis the petition filed by N.D. Jayaprakash which highlighted the unprecedented physical violence witnessed on Monday in which journalists, litigants and others visiting the court were mercilessly assaulted by lawyers and others.
The petitioner said he was constrained to move the SC due to “physical violence and intimidation faced by the petitioner and a large number of students, teachers and journalists while attending a judicial proceeding before the Court of Sh. Loveleen, Metropolitan Magi-strate, Patiala House Courts, as well as in the court complex.
