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Photo: ANINew Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Friday set aside Jawaharlal Nehru University’s (JNU) decision to penalise Kanhaiya Kumar for breach of discipline. Kanhaiya, a member of the Communist Party of India’s student’s wing, was then president of Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union. The five-member panel had also imposed a financial penalty on 13 other JNU students for violation of disciplinary norms. The court called the JNU’s order against Kanhaiya “illegal, irrational and irregular,” and asked the University to take a decision on the matter after a proper hearing. On July 5, a high-level inquiry committee of JNU had imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on Kanhaiya for allegedly raising anti-national slogans inside the college premises in February 2016..