Sharjeel Imam granted statutory bail in sedition case
He will, however, remain in jail in the larger conspiracy case involving Unlawful Activities Prevention Act charges related to the Delhi riots.
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The Delhi High Court on Wednesday granted bail to activist Sharjeel Imam in a sedition and Unlawful Activities Prevention Act case, Live Law reported.
A division bench of Justices Suresh Kumar Kait and Manoj Jain allowed Imam’s bail plea that had challenged the trial court order denying him relief in the case. Imam has been in jail since January 28, 2020. He will remain in jail in the larger conspiracy case involving Unlawful Activities Prevention Act charges related to the Delhi riots, reported Bar and Bench.
The case pertains to speeches that Imam, a former scholar at Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University, delivered at the Jamia Millia Islamia University in 2019 and the Aligarh Muslim University in 2020 during protests against the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act.
The police alleged that in his speech at the Aligarh Muslim University, Imam had asked those protesting against the amended citizenship law at the time to “cut off Assam from India” by occupying the “Muslim-dominated chicken’s neck”.
The so-called chicken’s neck, or the Siliguri corridor, refers to a very narrow track of land around Siliguri city in West Bengal that connects India’s North East to the rest of the country.
Imam had moved the High Court after a Delhi court on February 17 denied him bail. The trial court was following a January 30 direction from...
