Court reserves order on Interim bail plea of Sharjeel Imam bail in sedition case

A Delhi Court on Monday reserved the order on the interim bail plea of Sharjeel Imam in the sedition case He had moved the trial court for interim bail in view of the recent direction of the Supreme Court on the law of seditionAdditional Sessions Judge Amitab Rawat will pronounce the order on June 10 2022The court on 30 May had issued notice to Delhi Police on the interim bail applicationHe had moved to the lower court for the interim bail in the sedition case on 27 May His counsel had withdrawn the bail application from the Delhi High Court after the prosecution had raised the issue of maintainability The High Court had asked him to approach the lower court for bailThe bail application has been moved by Talib Hussain Ahmed Ibrahim and Kartik VenuThe application says in the view of recent direction of the Supreme Court Sharjeel Imam should be granted bailAlso Read Court issues notice to Delhi Police on Sharjeel Imam bail application in sedition caseAdvocate Talib Hussain argued that in the light of direction given by the Supreme court on sedition law the trial should be stayed and Sharjeel Imam should be released on interim bailOn the other hand the Special Public Prosecutor SPP argued that though the proceedings under sedition law are stayed by the Supreme Court the section of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act UAPA is invoked These sections cannot be ignored Under these circumstances the accused should not be granted interim bailThe Supreme Court had directed to keep all pending appeals and proceedings with the respect to the charge framed under section 124A Sedition of the Indian Penal Code in abeyanceAn application for bail in a sedition case registered against Sharjeel Imam for alleged speeches against the CAA and NRC was earlier moved in the Delhi High CourtThe bench of Justice Mukta Gupta and Justice Mini Pushkarna had granted the liberty to the accused after recording the objection of Special Public Prosecutor SPP Amit PrasadSPP had submitted that in terms of the order of the Supreme Court of 2014 any such bail application would first go to the trial court and only if the relief is not granted can the accused move to the High Court as the case is triable by a Special Court onlyThe bail application had stated that his bail application was dismissed by the trial court because it found that a prima facie offence under section 124A was made out against himIt was stated in the application that in view of the Supreme Courts direction the hindrance raised by the Special Court in the impugned order stands obviated and observations surrounding the offence under section 124A IPC cannot be taken into consideration in the proceedings against the appellant pending the final outcome of the Constitutional challenges to the sectionThis case was registered by the Crime Branch of Delhi Police for alleged inflammatory speeches given by Sharjeel Imam at different places in the country in protest of CAANRCThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever