Kanhaiya Kumar sent to 14-day judicial custody

The journalist, identified as Anwar of news channel CNN IBN, said despite heavy police deployment, clashes erupted in the court complex and the cops’ presence did not deter the lawyers from shouting slogans and fighting with journalists and students.

Lawyers chanting nationalist slogans earlier barged into the compound and threw stones at reporters outside, in defiance of an earlier Supreme Court order banning protests after there was a punch-up at a hearing on Monday.

On Monday, groups of lawyers had beaten up journalists and JNU students and teachers ahead of the hearing of the sedition case registered against Kumar.

The court also said it may appoint local commissioner to take stock of the situation. It was Dhawan, who started giving an account of the panel’s visit to the Patiala House Court to a bench of Justices J Chelameswar and A M Sapre, saying he had never seen the crowd of such a proportion as witnessed there and termed it as “an unprecedented situation”.

Raval, a member of the panel of senior advocates, submitted he had filmed the entire incident at Patiala House on his mobile and taht he will submit a copy of it to the court tomorrow.

I have full faith in the Constitution as well as the judiciary of the country: Kanhaiya Kumar in courtUse of force in the court would have been counter-productive: BassiWe have followed norms of prudent policing: BassiLawyers are officers of court. Police looked the other way, the journalists alleged. “How did he get inside the court room when there was a specific order of this court?”

The Supreme Court earlier ordered Delhi Police Commissioner B.S. Bassi to ensure security to the accused and limit the number of journalists to be present inside the court room to five.