Sharjeel Imam has been granted bail by the Delhi High Court in the Delhi riots sedition case. He was charged with sedition for allegedly delivering inflammatory speeches.
After being arrested for these charges, the court has now granted him statutory bail. Sharjeel Imam, the activist accused of making provocative speeches, has received bail after nearly four and a half years in jail.
The statutory bail was sought on the grounds that he had already spent four years in prison out of the maximum seven-year sentence.
In February, the Karkardooma Court in Delhi had refused to grant statutory bail to Sharjeel Imam. Following this, Sharjeel challenged the order in the High Court.
In January 2022, a Delhi court ordered charges of sedition against Sharjeel Imam in connection with his alleged inflammatory speeches at Aligarh Muslim University in Uttar Pradesh and in Delhi's Jamia area.
Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat directed charges against him under IPC sections 124A (sedition), 153A, 153B, 505, and section 13 of the UAPA.
Sharjeel Imam, a former JNU student and one of the key organizers of the Shaheen Bagh protests, was arrested in 2020 from Jehanabad in Bihar.
In December 2019, protests against the CAA were ongoing in the Jamia Nagar area. Violence erupted following clashes between protesters and the police, leading to the filing of an FIR.
Sharjeel Imam was accused of inciting riots with an inflammatory speech at Jamia Millia Islamia on December 13, 2019.
