Delhi court rejects interim bail plea of Sharjeel Imam

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A Delhi court on Saturday rejected interim bail plea of former Jawahar Lal University student Sharjeel Imam.

Imam is in judicial custody and has been booked for sedition, among other charges, for allegedly delivering provocative speeches at Aligarh Muslim University and Jamia Milia Islamia in 2019-2020 during the anti- CAA/NRC protests.

The additional sessions judge Amitabh Rawat denied relief after Imam had moved court seeking interim bail on account of the Supreme Court order which had put all cases of sedition on abeyance. Imam had moved the lower court on May 27 for interim bail, a day after the Delhi high court asked him to do so. His counsel had withdrawn the interim bail application from the Delhi high court after the prosecution had raised the issue of maintainability.

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