A court on Saturday granted bail to former Delhi University professor SAR Geelani, who was arrested in February on sedition charges.
JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar with Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya on Saturday.
New Delhi: A court on Saturday granted bail to former Delhi University professor SAR Geelani, who was arrested in February on sedition charges. Additional Sessions Judge Deepak Garg granted bail to Geelani, and asked him to furnish a personal bond of Rs 50,000 and one surety of like amount.
JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar with Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya on Saturday. PIC/PTI
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Granting bail, the court took into note that Geelani has been in judicial custody since February 16 and said that he was not required for further investigation in any manner and the completion of investigation was going to take time. He “shall not directly or indirectly make any inducement, threat or promise to any person acquainted with the fact of the case so as to dissuade them from disclosing such facts of the court or to any other authority,” the court said. Geelani shall surrender his passport before the trial court at the time of furnishing the bail bond/surety bond, it added.
SAR Geelani
On Friday, Delhi Police told the court that the allegations against Geelani were grievous. Geelani, who was arrested after police registered a case against him for organising a meeting at Press Club in Delhi on February 9 to mark the death anniversary of parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, had moved a fresh bail application before the court on Wednesday.
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