The five-member panel had imposed a penalty on 13 other students for violating disciplinary rules. After this the students had moved to the Delhi High Court. The court directed the university to keep the matter before the appellate authority for reviewing the panel's decision. According to sources, in the case of Khalid and Kanhaiya, the panel retained its decision.
Some students like Ashutosh Kumar have been fined the penalty amount. Now they have to pay the penalty amount and they can stay in the hostel. Kanhaiya, Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya were arrested in February 2016 on charges of sedition and in the case of the controversial program, they are now on bail, some of them are not students of JNU.
JNU's high level inquiry committee has upheld the penalty of Rs 10,000 on the expulsion of Umar Khalid and Kanhaiya Kumar in connection with the February 9, 2016 incident in the university campus. In the matter of a program organized by the JNU panel against hanging Afzal Guru, in 2016, he had imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on expulsion of Khalid and two other students and then chairman of the student union Kanhaiya. On that day there was allegedly anti-national slogans.