Tag: JNU

JNU seeks Delhi High Court action against students and police for ‘violating’ court order.

Source – theprint.in New Delhi: The JNU has moved the Delhi High Court seeking contempt action against its students and the police for allegedly violating a court order barring protests within 100 metres of the university’s administrative block. The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), in its plea, has claimed that the students “grossly violated” the August 9,

Delhi High Court disposes of plea on delay in sanctions in JNU sedition case.

Source – wionews.com Delhi High Court on Wednesday disposed of the public interest litigation (PIL) seeking directions to Delhi government for immediate grant of sanction to proceed with the trial against former Jawaharlal Nehru Unversity Students’ Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar and others in connection with a sedition case. A Division Bench headed by Chief Justice DN

Point of View | Dissent and Sedition

Source: indiatoday.in Shehla Rashid, JNU student leader and aspiring politician from Kashmir, is the latest target of the sedition law. Her tweets on alleged army excesses in Kashmir prompted Supreme Court lawyer Alakh Alok Srivastava to file a complaint with the Delhi Police. Given that the complaint cites a cognisable offence under the Indian Penal