JNU row: SC refuses to hear Kanhaiya Kumar's bail

The apex court said that Kumar should follow the legal process and approach the high court first

The Supreme Court today has refused to hear JNU Student Union president Kanhaiya Kumar's bail plea, saying he should first go to the high court and follow the legal process.

According to advocate Soli J Sorabjee, Kumar faced security concerns and they feared he could be attacked there.

Kumar's petition was mentioned before a bench of judges J Chelameswar and A M Sapre by senior advocate Soli J Sorabjee and Raju Ramachandran.

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The student leader was produced in the court on Wednesday after the end of his police custody, where a group of men dressed in lawyers' robes unleashed a brazen attack on him and others, which included journalists, who were present there.

In his bail plea, Kumar said there has been a repeated breakdown of law and order machinery at the Patiala House Court complex, both before and after the order of apex court.

"It is most serious and egregious that such breakdown does not cease even after the writ of this Court. The situation as it prevails, does not inspire any confidence in the Petitioner and violates his right and aspiration of Justice not only be done, but seem to have been done. The Petitioner's right of access to justice is gravely and severely impeded," the plea further said.

Kumar, who has been booked under sedition charge in connection with an event in JNU where anti-national slogans were allegedly raised last week, has been arrested by Delhi Police. He has been remanded to judicial custody till March 2.