New Delhi, Nov. 29 -- : A court in Delhi on Saturday has allowed former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student Umar Khalid's application wherein he requested for the copy of the chargesheet filed against him in connection with Delhi violence case.

Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat directed the staff to provide a soft copy of the chargesheet and said, "The court feels that it would be in the fitness of things to allow the present application so far as the prayer of providing the soft copy of the chargesheet in the form of pendrive, is concerned."

Advocate Trideep Pais, representing accused Khalid, moved the plea. The application submitted that there has been vicious media campaign against his client in various newspapers and media...