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A Delhi court on Saturday denied bail to Muslim activist and JNU research scholar Sharjeel Imam in connection with the 2020 Delhi pogrom case involving allegations of sedition, noting that “although the applicant did not ask anybody to pick weapons and kill the people but his speeches and activities mobilised the public which disrupted the city and might be the main reason in outbreak of the riots.”

Sharjeel Imam’s politics was no-nonsense, action-oriented, and pointedly disruptive of existing political power hierarchies that sought to disenfranchise Muslims politically and socially

Sharjeel Imam, who has been incarcerated since January 28, 2020 under the stringent UAPA and sedition charges, among others, in relation to his speeches against CAA and NRC, has petitioned a Delhi Court for statutory bail, citing that he has served half of the maximum seven-year sentence for his alleged offenses.

The Delhi High Court on Friday asked Delhi Police to respond to jailed Muslim activist Sharjeel Imam’s plea seeking the dismissal of a supplementary chargesheet that introduced charges of sedition and ‘hate speech’ in a case related to his anti-CAA speech delivered at Jamia Millia Islamia in December 2019.

28 January 2023 will mark three years of incarceration of Sharjeel Imam, a research student at Jawaharlal Nehru University a Muslim activist who was targeted by the Hindu nationalist BJP government for his disagreements and dissents over discriminatory citizenship acts.

Jailed Muslim student leader Sharjeel Imam has moved the Supreme Court seeking expunction of observations and remarks made about him by the Delhi High Court while denying bail to jailed activist Umar Khalid in the Delhi pogrom conspiracy case.