New Delhi: In major relief to JNU students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, a Delhi court on Friday granted interim bail to them for six months. The two, with JNU Students Union president Kanhaiya Kumar, were in the middle of a raging controversy over alleged anti-national slogans on the JNU campus on February 9.
News of the bail order was greeted on the JNU campus with thunderous applause by hundreds of students. Welcoming it, Kanhaiya Kumar vowed to wage a battle to scrap the sedition law. On the other hand, actor Anupam Kher, who was at JNU for the screening of his film, said, “People who are out on bail cannot be welcomed on the campus.”
At the Patiala House courts, additional sessions judge Reetesh Singh said the "role attributed” to Kanhaiya Kumar doesn’t appear to be different from the allegations against Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya. The judge granted them relief on furnishing of a personal bond for Rs 25,000 with one surety of like amount, which they complied with, and they were ordered to be released till September 19. The court also directed the duo not to leave Delhi.
