Now Sedition case against Rahul,
Kejriwal, Yechury
Hyderabad: Congress Vice President
Rahul Gandhi, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, CPI(M) General Secretary
Sitaram Yechury are among nine persons who have been booked on sedition charges
in connection with the JNU row, police said on Sunday, 28th February
2016.
An FIR has been registered against Rahul,
Kejriwal, Yechury, Congress leaders Anand Sharma and Ajay Maken, CPI leader D
Raja, JD(U) Spokesperson KC Tyagi, JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar and JNU
research scholar Umar Khalid on the order of a court here, based on a complaint
filed by lawyer Janardhan Goud.
"It is a court-referred matter. Following the
court's directive, a case under section 124A of the IPC (sedition) has been
registered yesterday against nine persons, including Rahul Gandhi, Arvind
Kejriwal, Sitaram Yechury, JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar and others,"
Saroornagar Police Station Inspector S Lingaiah said
The court has posted the matter for hearing on
March 4.
In his petition, Goud said Rahul and other
leaders, despite being aware that Delhi Police had registered a case against
Kanhaiya on charge of sedition had visited JNU campus and knowingly supported
them and hence it "amounted to sedition".
Kanhaiya and Khalid, who have earlier been
arrested in Delhi on sedition charge, have also been booked here on the same
charge.
Goud had filed a complaint in the court of
Metropolitan Magistrate here on Thursday, seeking its direction to police for
registration of a case against Kanhaiya and Khalid for allegedly raising
anti-India and pro-Afzal Guru slogans on JNU campus and others.
In his petition, Goud said he has every right to
question those who are indulging in "anti-national activities and also
those who are encouraging anti-nationals in the name of solidarity for those
who are facing criminal charges under section 124(A) of IPC.