New Delhi, May 18, 2022 (PPI-OT):The Delhi High Court will hear on May 26, the bail plea moved by Jawahar Lal Nehru University (JNU) scholar-activist Sharjeel Imam, who has approached the court for relief following the historic verdict of Indian Supreme Court, which put on hold the colonial-era penal provision of Sedition Law.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the detained scholar Sharjeel Imam was seeking an interim bail in the fake case of speeches delivered by him at Aligarh Muslim University and in the Jamia area of Delhi during the anti-CAA agitation in 2019 and 2020.
His application seeking interim bail in the already pending plea, was posted for May 26 (Thursday) as the bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul and Rajnish Bhatnagar did not assemble on Tuesday.
In the fresh basil application, he said that since the top court has put sedition in abeyance, his case has improved for the grant of bail.
“The appellant has been incarcerated for nearly 28 months since January 28, 2020 whereas the maximum punishment for the offences – not including 124-A IPC are punishable up to a maximum of 7 years of imprisonment,” the plea read.
The BJP and police authorities have imposed such fake cases of Delhi riots 2020 near a dozen people including JNU scholars and activists Sharjeel Imam, and Umar Khalid.
The riots broke out in the Indian capital Delhi in February 2020 as clashes between the anti-CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act) and pro-CAA protesters took a violent turn. The mayhem, which coincided with the then US President Donald Trump’s maiden trip to India, saw more than 50 people lose their lives and over 700 were injured.
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