"I hope that Constitution will be followed in the JNU issue. It should be left to the court as to who is guilty and who is not. Political parties should stop advocating someone's innocence or guilt," Mehbooba told reporters here.
"It should be left to the court (to decide). Politicians and the media should not pronounce their verdict on them," she said when asked about her reaction to alleged raising of anti-national slogans on February 9 on the JNU campus.
"Why was the doctored video aired? Then politicians started jumping in. The issue went from bad to worse when people started claiming themselves as nationalists and proving the other side as anti-nationals," Mehbooba said.
She also noted that the country's democracy was strong enough to see through the attempts at fooling the people in the name of secularism or exploiting psuedo-nationalism, and "people will not allow it to succeed".
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The PDP chief also said apprehending possible harassment, she had asked two senior leaders, Haseeb Drabu and Amitabh Mattoo, to visit JNU to find out if there was any such incident against the students from Jammu and Kashmir there.
She also asked her party leaders to take up with the Union Home Minister any issues concerning the students from the state at the JNU.
"I request the Government of India to ensure that the situation, which is already bad in Jammu and Kashmir, does not have a negative impact here," she added.