NEW DELHI: Days after the Supreme Court put the trial of sedition cases on hold, Jawaharlal Nehru University student leader Sharjeel Imam has moved Delhi High Court seeking interim bail in a case of alleged inflammatory speeches by him in 2019 and 2020.
Imam said that since the apex court had put sedition Section 124A of IPC in abeyance, he was eligible to be released on bail. In view of this direction, the objections raised by the trial court stand removed, and observations surrounding the offence under the section cannot be taken into consideration in the proceedings at this stage, he argued.
