The Supreme Court on Friday asked Delhi High Court to expeditiously decide the bail plea of Sharjeel Imam charged under the stringent provisions of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) in the February 2000 Delhi riots conspiracy case.
Delhi High Court is likely to pronounce its order on the police's revision plea against a trial court's order discharging 11 accused, including Sharjeel Imam, Safoora Zargar and Asif Iqbal Tanha in the 2019 Jamia violence case.
The violence had erupted after a clash between Police and people protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).
Imam's plea said though he requested the Assistant Superintendent to prevent the convicts from assaulting him, however, hie plea was not heeded.
During the course of the hearing, Special Public Prosecutor (SPP) Amit Prasad opposed the maintainability of the interim bail application citing a 2014 apex court verdict.
Imam was arrested from Jehanabad in Bihar on January 28, days after he managed to outwit the Delhi Police which had launched a massive manhunt to nab him.
Sharjeel was slapped with a sedition case by the Crime Branch of the Delhi Police last month, after his alleged speeches went viral on the social media wherein he was heard speaking about Assam’s possible secession from the country in the wake of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA).
Urvashi Chudawala and around 50 others were also booked under sections 124 (A) (sedition), 153 (B) (Imputations, assertions prejudicial to national integration), 505 (statement conducing to public mischief) and 34 (Common Intention) of the Indian penal code, said Pranay Ashok, Deputy Commissioner of Police.
The prosecution, while opposing relief for her, had claimed that Urvashi Chudawala was 'supporting a person who is officially enemy of the state'.
The development comes a day after a lower court in Delhi extended sedition-accused Sharjeel Imam's police remand by three days.
