Sharjeel Imam

Sedition case: Sharjeel Imam withdraws bail application from Delhi HC

The Delhi High Court asked Sharjeel's lawyer to withdraw the application and granted liberty to move the trial court for bail in view of the recent judgement passed by the Supreme Court on sedition law

Delhi HC permits Sharjeel Imam to approach trial court for interim bail based on SC sedition order

Imam was arrested in a case related to alleged inflammatory speeches made by him during protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in 2019

Delhi High Court to hear Sharjeel Imam's bail plea on 26 May

Imam was arrested in 2020 by the Delhi Police from Bihar's Jahanabad. A charge sheet was filed against him for giving speeches inciting hatred, contempt, and disaffection towards the Central government during the anti-CAA agitation

Delhi HC to hear Sharjeel Imam's bail plea in sedition case on 26 May

Imam's lawyer said that he has been in custody since January 2020 and the Allahabad High Court granted bail to him in Aligarh speech FIR while opining that there was no call for violence

Delhi riots 2020: High Court to hear bail plea by Umar Khalid on 19 May

Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam and several others have been booked under the anti-terror law in the UAPA case for being the "masterminds" of the February 2020 riots

Delhi HC defers hearing on Umar Khalid bail in UAPA case, seeks police stand on Sharjeel Imam's plea

The court further observed that Imam, also a former JNU student, and Khalid were stated to be co-conspirators in the case and it would thus hear both the two bail applications together.

Anti-CAA protest: Delhi court frames sedition charge against Sharjeel Imam

Imam had allegedly made speeches at Jamia Millia Islamia in December, 2019, and at Aligarh Muslim University in December, 2019, where he threatened to cut off Assam and the rest of the Northeast from India

Who Sharjeel Imam is and why he has been denied bail in connection to CAA and NRC cases

He came to the social media spotlight, courtesy a video that went viral in January 2020, where he was allegedly heard ‘instigating people’ to cut Assam off India during a speech at the Aligarh Muslim University on 16 December, 2019

Anti-CAA protests: Sharjeel Imam denies inciting violence with speech, says 'cannot be hammered' with sedition

During the hearing, advocate Tanveer Ahmed Mir, representing Imam, apprised Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat, that no part of his speech called for any kind of violence to be initiated

Delhi Police says riots during Donald Trump's visit to India an international embarrassment

The chargesheet filed by the Delhi Police claimed that the objective of all the conspirators was to uproot a lawfully elected government by sheer use of 'engineered and visceral' communal violence