<span style="color: #222222;">A court in Delhi today asked the city government to decide on the sanction to prosecute former JNU Students' Union president Kanhaiya Kumar and others in a sedition case, within one month.<br />''<br />''Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Manish Khurana said the delay in taking a decision on the matter has wasted judicial time as the case had been listed and adjourned repeatedly since the filing of the charge sheet.<br />''<br />''The court passed the directions after the Delhi Police informed the court that the file regarding sanction is pending with the Home Department.<br />''<br />''The court posted the matter for 25th October, by which the reports have to be filed.<br />''<br />''On 14th January this year, the police had filed a charge sheet in the court against Kanhaiya Kumar and others, including former JNU students, Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya.<br />''<br />''The police contended that they were leading a procession and supported seditious slogans raised on the campus during an event on February 9, 2016.</span><br />