New Delhi, Delhi, India

The Delhi government on Friday told Patiala House Court that Delhi police had filed charge sheet in the 2016 JNU sedition case in a ''secretive'' and ''hasty manner'' and it would take a month to decide whether to grant sanction to prosecute former JNU student's union president Kanhaiya Kumar in the case. 

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It made the submission to Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Deepak Sherawat. 

The AAP government accused the police of filing the charge sheet secretly and in a hasty manner without obtaining the required approval from the appropriate authority. 

The court had earlier directed the state government to file a "proper reply", citing a definite time-frame.

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DCP of Special Cell of Delhi Police, Pramod Kushwaha, had told the court that the agency has already sent a request to the Delhi government seeking sanction and added sanction was an administrative action and the charge sheet can be filed without that.

On January 14, police had filed a charge sheet in the court against Kumar and others, saying he was leading a procession and supported seditious slogans raised in the JNU campus during an event on February 9, 2016. 

(With inputs from PTI)