‘Trial Court Got Swayed by Allegations’: Delhi High Court Grants Bail To Sharjeel Imam in Sedition Case
Malavika Prasad | 10 June 2024 | The Indian Express
The Delhi High Court has recently said that the trial court, while denying bail to Sharjeel Imam in a sedition and unlawful activities case, “got swayed by the enormity of the allegations, observing that he had made inflammatory speeches which resulted in riots”. The HC then directed that Imam be released on bail as per terms and conditions imposed by the trial court.
Imam had filed an appeal against a trial court order dated February 17, which denied him bail, observing that the content of his anti-CAA speeches at Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) and Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) could be termed “seditious” in the “dictionary meaning”…