The Supreme Court today directed the Delhi Police Commissioner to ensure adequate security to the JNU Students' Union President Kanhaiya Kumar, who is to be produced in the Patiala House Court later today. In an interim order on a petition relating to the JNU row, the apex court said, there will be restricted entry of people in the court room during the proceedings relating to the remand of Kanhaiya whose extended police custody of two days is expiring today. <br/><br/>The court said, only five journalists, five lawyers, two students and two faculty members of the university, along with one investigating officer besides two family members of the accused would be allowed in the court. The court also directed the Delhi High Court Registrar General to be present in the Patiala House court complex for verification of people or group of people who have been allowed access to the court room and its compound.<br/><br/>A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) was filed yesterday by a JNU alumni and activist Jayaprakash, who sought security to Kanhaiya Kumar and the journalists and necessary action against those, who indulged in assaults on them on Monday when the JNU students union leader was presented in the court. Kanhaiya Kumar has been charged with sedition in connection with the February 9 event in the JNU campus during which anti-India slogans were raised.

The Supreme court today restricted the entry of journalists and JNU students and teachers in the Patiala court where a case against the University Students Union leader Kanhaiya Kumar is to come up for hearing later in the day. In an interim order on a petition relating to the JNU row, the apex court said that only five journalists, five lawyers, and two students and two faculty members of the university besides one investigating officer would be allowed in the court.<br/><br/>A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) had yesterday been filed by a JNU alumni and activist Jayaprakash, who sought safety and security to Kanhaiya Kumar and journalists and necessary action against those, who indulged in assaults on them on Monday when the JNU students union leader was presented in the court. Kanhaiya Kumar has been charged with sedition in connection with the February 9 event in the JNU campus during which anti-India slogans were raised.