New Delhi: JNU students' union president Kanhaiya Kumar, who was sent to judicial custody in Tihar Jail till March 2 following his arrest last week, moved the Supreme Court requesting for bail on Thursday. The plea will be heard before the court tomorrow.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court warned everyone to be careful while issuing statements. “We are keeping an eye on the law and order situation in Patiala House Court. Everyone should be careful while issuing the statements,” the court observed.
Here are the latest developments:
1. The Supreme Court-appointed team and Delhi High Court registrar submitted their report regarding the Patiala House court violence on Thursday. Delhi Police will submit their report tomorrow. The apex court will hear the matter tomorrow morning.
Senior advocates Kapil Sibal, Rajeev Dhavan, Dushyant Dave and others earlier informed the bench that a group of men in lawyers’ robes, in open defiance of the Supreme Court order, barged into the Patiala House courts complex and assaulted a journalist and Kanhaiya Kumar. They said the group, which was seen raising the slogan “Vande Mataram” and waving the Indian flag on the court premises, was led by lawyer Vikram Chauhan.
2. Rahul Gandhi takes the battle against the Centre to President Pranab Mukherjee. The Congress vice president said RSS was trying to impose its "flawed" and "dead" ideology on the students of the country but his party will not allow it. Speaking to the media after submitting a memorandum to the President, he also referred to the suicide by Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula in Hyderabad and accused the Hindutva organisation of "crushing" him.
3. The Bar Council of India on Thursday condemned the attack on journalists at the Patiala House court complex and apologised to media and JNU students’ union leader Kanhaiya Kumar for the same. It also sought a report from the Patiala House court bar council in this regard.
4. BJP MLA OP Sharma, who was caught on camera beating a CPI activist at Patiala House court on Monday, joined the probe on Thursday into the assault case, a day after he was served summons by Delhi Police. Sharma, a first-time MLA, presented himself before the Tilak Marg police station today. The police had issued summons to him as well as three lawyers in connection with assault on journalists and JNU students and teachers at the court complex on Monday.
5. The Supreme Court expressed concern over the state of affairs saying it was concerned about the law and order situation at Patiala House Court. The top court also asked lawyers not to give undue statements to inflate the issue. It is also likely to take a decision on unruly lawyers who shouted slogans and attacked people at the court.
6. JNU students’ union leader Kanhaiya Kumar, who has been booked for sedition in connection with a pro-Afzal Guru event in JNU where anti-national slogans were allegedly raised last week, has been arrested by Delhi Police. He has been remanded to judicial custody till March 2.
7. Kanhaiya was earlier attacked by lawyers despite Supreme Court’s order to provide him with full security. He was reportedly punched and kicked as he was taken inside the courtroom. About a dozen lawyers threw rocks at reporters and protesters at the Patiala House court on Wednesday.
