Delhi Police Commissioner BS Bassi among CIC contenders

“I do not support those anti-national slogans and I would like to appeal to you that in matters like these, the country, our society and universities should not disturb the peace”. The magistrate also ordered the DCP (Security) present in the court to ensure that there is no attack on him. “The permission granted to them to enter was not an anti-student move”, the Vice Chancellor had said.

Slapped with a sedition charge for allegedly raising anti-national slogans in the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Kanhaiya Kumar on Wednesday said he is an Indian who has full faith in the judicial system and the Constitution of the nation.

However, lawyers are reported to have violated the Supreme Court guidelines and tried to attack Kumar, who escaped without any big injury. The police could do nothing to stop the attackers.

Reacting on the assault on Kanhaiya, Bassi said, “There was a lot of jostling when Kanhaiya was brought to the court”.

In the court, Kumar, referring to the incident of anti-India slogan shouting at a students’ meeting on February 9 for which he was being held, said he condemned it.

On the other hand, a group of lawyers protesting against Kanhaiya Kumar’s arrest demanded his immediate release.

Delhi police Commissioner Bhim Sain Bassi is one of the contenders for the post of the Information Commissioner in Central Information Commission (CIC), agency reports have claimed quoting official sources.

The morning saw a tense hearing during which politics and nationalist passions sidelined legal arguments before a Supreme Court Bench of Justices J. Chelameswar and A.M. Sapre. Some threw stones at journalists who were there to cover the hearing.

Earlier in the day, the Supreme Court directed Bassi to ensure proper and adequate security at Patiala House court complex.

A lawyers’ association was also heard by the apex court on Wednesday, who said that Kumar’s supporters were trying to intimidate the court by their numbers, and hence the number had to be restricted.

Kumar denies he was among those chanting anti-India slogans at last Tuesday’s rally to mark the 2013 hanging of Kashmiri separatist Mohammed Afzal Guru over a deadly 2001 attack on the Indian parliament.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Monday attacked the Government of India (GoI) on the arrest of JNU Students’ Union president on sedition charge saying it was “too much of a design” to impose the ideology of ABVP, the student wing of the RSS, on the nation.