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NEW DELHI: The Delhi government has given a go-ahead to the city police to prosecute former JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya in connection with a 2016 sedition case, sources said on Friday.* The case against Kanhaiya, Umar and Anirban was filed in 2016 at Vasant Kunj Police Station, and the complaint accused them of raising "anti-national slogans" in the JNU campus during an event that was organised to protest Afzal Guru 's hanging on February 9.* Police arrested Kanhaiya on February 12.* On February 24, police arrested Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya also who were named in the FIR.* The sedition case was transferred to the Special Cell of Delhi Police on February 27.* Kanhaiya was released on bail on March 3, 2016, by the Delhi high court.* Umar and Anirban were also granted interim bail by the court on March 17, 2016.* In April 2017, police summoned 31 JNU students for questioning in the case.* In January 2019, Special Cell filed a chargesheet in the case, saying they were leading a procession and supported seditious slogans raised on the campus during an event on February 9, 2016. The court had, however, asked the police to take requisite sanction for prosecution.* The Delhi Police has last week written to the AAP government requesting it to expedite the process to accord sanction to prosecute Kanhaiya Kumar and others in the case. It came after a court directed the police to send a reminder to the Delhi government on its application for prosecution sanction which is pending with the home department since January 14, 2019.* On February 24, the Supreme Court had refused to entertain a petition filed by BJP leader Dr Nand Kishore Garg seeking directions to the Delhi government to grant sanctions to prosecute Kanhaiya Kumar in the 2016 sedition case. The apex court, however, asked the petitioner to approach the lower court, if he wanted any relief.