Justice Pratibha Rani declined to grant relief to accused Amit Jani, saying his alleged role in the incident in which a loaded pistol and a letter threatening to kill Kanhaiya and Umar Khalid, who were arrested under sedition charges over a controversial JNU event, were recovered from a bag in a DTC bus and needs to be investigated by the police.
"No anticipatory bail at this stage. Arms were recovered from the bag and it needs to be investigated by the police," the court said.
Jani, through his counsel Rajesh Sachdeva, submitted that he has no connection with the gun allegedly found in the bus.
The letter was duly undersigned by Jani, the police said,
adding his arrest was necessary to find out the truth.
The counsel for police also submitted that three persons have been arrested in the case and they have disclosed Jani's name, who had allegedly asked them to keep the bag in the bus.
As per the prosecution, it was the driver of the bus who spotted an unclaimed bag and had raised an alarm. He had also registered a complaint with the police station concerned.
Following the complaint, the police has arrested Jani's brother, Saurabh Agarwal, and his associate, Sulabh Bharadwaj and Chanderbhan, for writing the letter and leaving the weapon and cartridges in the bus. The trio are presently in custody.
Kanhaiya, who is on bail, Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya were arrested in February in a sedition case over an event on campus against the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru during which anti-national slogans were allegedly raised.