JNU students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya were granted bail today in the sedition case registered against them..Additional Sessions Judge Reetesh Singh in the Patiala House District Court also directed both students to deposit a bail bond of Rs 25,000 along with a surety of the same amount, to be furnished by each..The Court has further directed them to not leave the city while they are out on bail..Khalid and Bhattacharya, while arguing that participation in a commemorative event for Afzal Guru did not attract provisions of sedition, had also adopted the argument of parity with the case of JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar who was granted interim bail previously by the Delhi High Court..The prosecution had responded by opposing the bail plea on grounds of strong video-graphic evidence along with reliable witness statements, to defend the case of sedition against the students. The prosecution lawyers had further argued that both these students were chief organizers of the event during which certain ‘anti-national’ slogans were also raised, that had the potential to incite violence among the masses..Read order below.
