However, their submission was objected to by the lawyers for Centre and Delhi Police, including SG Ranjit Kumar, ASG Tushar Mehta and senior advocate Ajit K Sinha, who said the facts of the writ petition and bail plea are different and even opposed it being heard directly by the high court.
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A bail petition on behalf of JNU Students’ Union president Kanhaiya Kumar, arrested in a sedition case, was filed in Delhi High Court Friday following the Supreme Court’s direction transferring the plea to the High Court.
He had applied for bail at Patiala House Court in Delhi.
Scores of lawyers, including those who defied police summons over the violence in a Delhi court complex, took out a protest march today even as the JNU row sparked clashes between rival student groups in Jaipur and police action in Hyderabad where several people were detained.
Kumar said that the team would remain at the FCI police station for the “time being” and will be put on duty only in the event of any threat or intimidation to Kanhaiya Kumar’s family or house.
Thursday’s protest march came a day after Kumar was attacked by rightwing lawyers as he was escorted into a hearing by police, prompting an intervention by the Supreme Court which had ordered police to ensure his safety.
He said he is also answering why he approached this court for the bail and continued with his submission that this court is seized of the matter concerning access to justice for Kanhaiya Kumar and he was seeking apex court indulgence.
Police later dispersed the protestors, the DCP said, adding no one was injured in the incident and the situation was normal now.
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The student leader had directly moved his bail plea before the Supreme Court invoking its jurisdiction under article 32, under which a citizen can move the apex court for enforcing his fundamental rights.
