JNU sedition case: Chidambaram dubs police charges as 'absurd'
January 14, 2019  22:12
Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Monday dubbed the charges against former Jawaharlal Nehru University Student Union  president Kanhaiya Kumar and others in the JNU sedition case as "absurd" while his party said it hoped that the legal process will be carried out rightfully.
 
Earlier in the day, the Delhi Police filed its chargesheet against Kumar and nine others in the case before Metropolitan Magistrate Sumit Anand.
Chidambaram said if it took three years for the government to make out the charge of sedition, it "exposes the motive of the government".
He also demanded a debate on whether a provision like Section 124A (sedition) of Indian Penal Code (IPC) has a place in the laws of a democratic republic.
"The charge of sedition against Kanhaiya Kumar and others is absurd. If it takes three years and 1,200 pages to make out a charge of sedition (based on a public speech), that alone exposes the motive of the government," the former home minister said in a series of tweets.
"How many in the investigating team have read and understood section 124A of the IPC and the case law on the Section. There must be a serious debate if a provision like section 124A has a place in the laws of a democratic republic," Chidambaram said.
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