The Delhi High Court is likely to resume today, hearing on a bail plea of JNU Students' Union President Kanhaiya Kumar arrested in a sedition case. The High Court on 24th February had deferred the hearing till today after Delhi police informed the court that it will seek Kanhaiya's further custodial interrogation.<br/><br/>Police is likely to apprise the Court about the ongoing probe, during which it had taken Kanhaiya into one-day custody on 25th February to confront him with two other JNU students and accused Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya. Kanhaiya was thereafter remanded back in judicial custody for two weeks on February 26th. Kanhaiya was arrested on February 12th. Umar and Anirban, who had surrendered before the police on February 23rd, are in police custody till today. <br/><br/>Meanwhile, another JNU student Ashutosh Kumar, who is among one of the six students to have been charged with sedition, was questioned by the Police yesterday in connection with the case. The students face sedition charges for allegedly raising anti-national slogans at the JNU campus during an event earlier this month.

The Delhi High Court is likely to resume today, hearing on a bail plea of JNU Students' Union President Kanhaiya Kumar arrested in a sedition case. The High Court on 24th February had deferred the hearing till today after Delhi police informed the court that it will seek Kanhaiya's further custodial interrogation.<br/><br/>Police is likely to apprise the Court about the ongoing probe, during which it had taken Kanhaiya into one-day custody on 25th February to confront him with two other JNU students and accused Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya. Kanhaiya was thereafter remanded back in judicial custody for two weeks on February 26th. Kanhaiya was arrested on February 12th. Umar and Anirban, who had surrendered before the police on February 23rd, are in police custody till today. <br/><br/>Meanwhile, another JNU student Ashutosh Kumar, who is among one of the six students to have been charged with sedition, was questioned by the Police yesterday in connection with the case. The students face sedition charges for allegedly raising anti-national slogans at the JNU campus during an event earlier this month.<br/><br/>Hyderabad local police have registered an FIR on sedition charges against nine persons including Congress Vice president Rahul Gandhi and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in connection with the JNU row. Following the direction by the Eleventh Metropolitan Magistrates Court of L.B.Nagar, the Saroornagar police booked a case against these nine persons under the 124 A of the Indian Penal Code. CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yehury, Congress leaders Anand Sharma and Ajay Maken, CPI Leader D Raja, JD-U spokes person K C Tyagi, JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar and JNU research Scholar Umar Khalid were among them. <br/><br/>A local lawyer Janardhan Goud in his petition to the court, said Rahul Gandhi and eight others had extended support to Kanhaiya despite knowing that Delhi police had booked the student leader under Sedition charges and hence it amounted to sedition. He sought directions to police to book cases against Kanhaiya and Khalid for raising anti-national slogans in JNU campus. Further hearing on the case has been adjourned till March 4th.

The Delhi High Court is likely to resume today, hearing on a bail plea of JNU Students' Union President Kanhaiya Kumar arrested in a sedition case. The High Court on 24th February had deferred the hearing till today after Delhi police informed the court that it will seek Kanhaiya's further custodial interrogation.<br/><br/>Police is likely to apprise the Court about the ongoing probe, during which it had taken Kanhaiya into one-day custody on 25th February to confront him with two other JNU students and accused Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya. Kanhaiya was thereafter remanded back in judicial custody for two weeks on February 26th. Kanhaiya was arrested on February 12th. Umar and Anirban, who had surrendered before the police on February 23rd, are in police custody till today. <br/><br/>Meanwhile, another JNU student Ashutosh Kumar, who is among one of the six students to have been charged with sedition, was questioned by the Police yesterday in connection with the case. The students face sedition charges for allegedly raising anti-national slogans at the JNU campus during an event earlier this month.