The 11 people were discharged on February 4 by the trial court, which said they were made "scapegoats" by police and that dissent has to be encouraged, not stifled.
Arrest has far-reaching consequences as the same may spoil the career of the student forever, the judge said. Slogans of "Sharjeel Tere Sapno Ko Hum Manzil Tak Pahuchaenge" were raised in an LGBTQ rally in Mumbai.
Incarcerated for a year, Sharjeel Imam stands as a litmus test for India’s much-vaunted ‘secular’ politics
Sharjeel Imam's plea for release has been scheduled for hearing on July 26th. The JNU student was booked section 124A(sedition) of the IPC.
Imam has moved the court seeking bail in a case related to speeches made by him at two universities in 2019, where he allegedly threatened to “cut off” Assam and the rest of the Northeast from India.
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It alleged that Imam's academic, religious and oratory instincts were to become an asset for the key conspirators of the case in the days to come.
A bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul and Rajnish Bhatnagar asked the counsel appearing for Imam to place before it the documents concerning another FIR, registered in Uttar Pradesh, arising from a speech which was delivered...
Though Sharjeel was in jail in Assam when the riots broke out on February 23, Delhi Police has alleged that he was one of the main conspirators in the riots. The Delhi Police has produced transcripts of Sharjeel’s WhatsApp...
Sharjeel Imam is one of the accused who, according to police, hatched a pre-meditated conspiracy to organise communal riots in North-East Delhi.
Sharjeel Imam was also arrested on January 28 in the case related to violent protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act near the Jamia Millia Islamia...
Sharjeel Imam, a PhD student from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has been booked under various laws for his alleged anti-national speeches and involvement...
It is said that there is a Bollywood song to fit any conceivable situation... The lyrics of some of Bollywood songs make me think of my relationship with my...
Sharjeel Imam was arrested for allegedly making inflammatory speeches at the Jamia and in Aligarh.
Clearly, dissent, criticism of government, questioning politicians – all of which are fundamental to a democracy – have come to be treated as sedition by...
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Most recently, a sedition case was registered against a Karnataka school for allegedly allowing students to stage a drama, portraying PM Modi in poor light in...
The case was registered by the Azad Maidan police after a video purportedly of Chudawala raising the slogans went viral after the LGBTQ event on February 1.
