JNU PhD pupil Sharjeel Imam has approached the Delhi High Court with purposes looking for interim bail in two sedition instances pending towards him since 2019 and 2020, citing the latest Supreme Court order on Section 124A IPC, Hearing a problem towards the supply, the apex court docket had on May 11 stayed the pending trials, appeals and proceedings underneath 124A IPC.
“In view of the Hon’ble Supreme Court’s instructions, the hindrance raised by the Ld. Special Court within the impugned order stands obviated, and observations surrounding the offense underneath Section 124-A IPC can’t be considered within the proceedings towards the appellant pending the ultimate final result of the constitutional challenges to the part,” Imam’s counsel mentioned in an software moved within the already pending enchantment towards dismissal of his bail software by trial court docket within the case registered by Crime Branch.
Imam, who’s in detention in different instances additionally, is accused of giving “inflammatory and instigating speeches” towards the federal government on the difficulty of CAA and NRC, notably at Jamia Milia Islamia University in December 2019. He was arrested from Bihar in January 2020 .
Imam has additionally moved an software in his pending bail plea in a case registered by the New Friends Colony police station in reference to the violent protest which occurred in December 2019 towards the Citizenship Amendment Bill. “The petitioner meets the proverbial ‘triple test’ for bail. Moreover it is not the case of the prosecution that the Applicant is a flight risk, at risk of influencing any witnesses or tampering any evidence,” the appliance reads.
The bail enchantment within the Crime Branch case is listed earlier than the division bench headed by Justice Siddharth Mirdul, and the bail software within the NFC Police Station case is listed earlier than the bench of Justice Anoop Kumar Mendiratta. Section 124A or sedition is among the foremost expenses in each the instances.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
