Delhi High Court Confirms No Stay On Activist Sharjeel Imam's Sedition Trial
NDTV
Last week, the Supreme Court refused to entertain a plea filed by Sharjeel Imam seeking bail in an alleged larger conspiracy behind the 2020 Delhi riots.
The Delhi High Court on Monday told Sharjeel Imam -- an accused in the 2020 northeast Delhi riots case -- that it has not stayed the trial proceedings in the sedition case linked to his alleged inflammatory speeches at Aligarh Muslim University and Jamia area against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).
"There is no stay, the trial would obviously proceed. If the trial court comes to a conclusion that enough material exists, it will proceed to frame charges," clarified the Bench of Justice Manoj Kumar Ohri when Imam's counsel pointed out that the trial court had proceeded to frame charges against his client.
The Delhi High Court was hearing Imam's plea seeking quashing of sedition and hate speech charges against him under Sections 124A and 153A of the now-repealed Indian Penal Code (IPC).