India, Jan. 6 -- Almost exactly a decade after Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) was at the centre of a controversy over allegedly seditious slogans raised at an event, a similar script is playing out for yet another row on the politically charged campus.

At the nub of the latest row is a protest against the January 5 Supreme Court decision to refuse bail to activists Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam, both JNU alums, in the 2020 Delhi riots "conspiracy" case. Khalid was, in fact, at the centre of the 2016 controversy too.

The protest meet on Monday night was originally a commemoration of the violence that took place on the university campus on January 5, 2020, when student were agitating against the Citizenship (Amenedment) Act.

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