Consider Sharjeel Imam’s plea to expedite bail hearing, SC tells Delhi High Court

The tribunal was proceeding Imam’s writ petition seeking bail successful the case. The bench, however, refused to entertain the writ straight filed earlier it portion allowing the petition to inquire the precocious tribunal to see his petition to expedite the hearing.

As the seat sought to disregard it initially, Senior Advocate Siddharth Dave appearing for Imam said that helium was not pressing for bail but lone wanted the precocious tribunal to instrumentality it up without further delay. He pointed retired that it had been pending successful the precocious tribunal since April 2022.

The seat pointed retired that Imam had 8 FIRs against him but Dave said the exertion pertains to lone the larger conspiracy down the riots case.

Imam had approached the precocious tribunal aft the proceedings tribunal denied him bail. He and galore others were booked nether applicable provisions of the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for allegedly being the “masterminds” of the riots successful northeast Delhi successful February 2020. The riots had erupted amid the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) successful the metropolis and near implicit 50 radical dormant and hundreds much injured.

On May 29 this year, the Delhi High Court granted Imam statutory bail successful the sedition lawsuit filed against him implicit alleged inflammatory speeches astatine Aligarh Muslim University and successful the Jamia country during the anti-CAA protests.

The precocious tribunal is owed to perceive his plea adjacent connected November 25.