Sedition case: Sharjeel Imam withdraws bail application from Delhi HC
• 3 years agoThe 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
• 3 years agoImam 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
• 3 years agoImam 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
• 3 years agoImam'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
• 3 years agoUmar 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
• 3 years agoThe 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
• 3 years agoImam 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
Fp Staff • 4 years agoHe 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
• 4 years agoDuring 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
• 4 years agoThe 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