The Patiala House Court on Tuesday adjourned the JNU sedition case till January 19.
The matter was deferred after Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Deepak Sehrawat, who was supposed to take cognisance of the charge sheet filed by the Delhi Police in connection with the 2016 case, went on leave.
The Delhi Police on Monday filed a 1,200-page charge sheet in the Patiala House Court, and statements of more than 90 witnesses were recorded.
Sources in the Delhi Police said column number 12 of the charge sheet named 36 people as accused including Raja's daughter Aparajita Raja and former JNUSU vice president Shehla Rashid.
The charge sheet names 10 JNU students as main accused including Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid, Anirban Bhattacharya, and seven Kashmiri students, namely, Aquib Hussain, Mujeeb Hussain, Muneeb Hussain, Umar Gul, Rayeea Rasool, and Bashir Bhat.
On February 9, 2016, "anti-national" slogans were allegedly raised in JNU campus during a programme called to protest against the death sentence handed out to Afzal Guru, a convict in the 2002 Parliament attack.
The Delhi Police have reportedly used video footage and other documents to support their points in the charge sheet, which has been filed almost after three years the incident took place
Apart from Kanhaiya Kumar in the charge sheet, the name of Aparna Jita, daughter of former JNUSU president Shahlah Rashid and daughter of Indian Communist Party D Raja, is also included, but they are not as accused.
36 other people, including Rashid and Aparajita, have also been accused of involvement in the disputed program, but the police did not get enough evidence against them.
Along with Kumar, Khalid and Bhattacharya, seven students of Jammu and Kashmir – Al Qaib Hussain, Mujib Hussain, Munib Hussain, Umar Gul, Raia Rasool, Bashir Bhat and Basharat, also accused of treason, organized illegally and criminal conspiracy Are there.
The police claimed to have enough evidence to take action against them.
Police have made a list of nearly 90 people, including JNU personnel and security personnel, as a witness. CCTV and mobile footage have also been included in the charge sheet.
Kanhaiya Kumar said that the Modi government has created this conspiracy to wipe out everybody's attention with all their failures.
He told reporters, "I have not received any summons or notice from the court. But, if this is true, then we express the gratitude of the police and Modi that after three years, the time has come for him and his government to leave. The charge sheet was filed, however, it is time to file a significant charge sheet before it. Just before the Lok Sabha election. "
He said, "It is a proof that there is a political purpose behind it. The purpose is that the failed Modi government on every front has not fulfilled its promise, so he is playing all his cards to distribute it."
Pointing to filing chargesheets after three years of the incident, he said, "The Modi government was not as serious as in all its promises, and is now politically using this issue.
Shah Rashid also accused the Modi government of making political use of this case.
He tweeted with the 'restless Modi' hashtag, "The Modi government has used this artificial controversy in instalments. The next instalment will be on the nomination of the general election of 2019.
