JNU : SAR Geelani booked for sedition, Eight students barred from academic activities

Former Delhi University lecturer SAR Geelani has been booked for sedition in connection with an event at Press Club of India here, in which a group shouted slogans hailing Afzal Guru, who was hanged on February 9, 2013 in Delhi’s Tihar jail. “An FIR has been registered against Geelani and other unnamed persons under Sections 124A (sedition), 120B (criminal conspiracy) and 149 (unlawful assembly) of IPC in connection with the event at the Press Club in which anti-India sloganeering took place,” DCP (New Delhi) Jatin Narwal said today. The action…

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