On the request of the prosecution, the Delhi Excessive Courtroom on Monday adjourned Sharjeel Imam’s plea to quash a supplementary chargesheet accusing him of waging struggle in opposition to the state and selling enmity over a 2019 speech at Jamia Millia Islamia, even because it famous the prosecution had not appeared earlier than the courtroom on the “final 4-5 events”.
The case stems from an FIR lodged on the New Associates Colony police station following an incident of rioting on the central college and Mata Mandir Marg on December 15, 2019. Imam was arrested within the case on February 17, 2021.
Moreover an FIR was registered on the interstate cell of the Crime Department on January 25, 2020, in opposition to Imam for having delivered two speeches throughout protests in opposition to the Citizenship Modification Act—together with the one at Jamia on December 13, 2019—underneath Indian Penal Code sections 124A (waging struggle in opposition to the state), 153A (selling communal enmity) and different offences.
Regardless of the latter FIR, Imam was booked for a similar offences in a supplementary chargesheet filed in relation to the 2019 FIR. He has argued in his petition that there can’t be a number of proceedings on the identical incident in opposition to an individual.
“For the final 4-5 events he (prosecutor) is just not current,” Justice Manoj Ohri remarked orally whereas posting the matter for consideration on February 28, 2025.
In the meantime, Justice Ohri clarified that the trial courtroom was at liberty to proceed with the framing of prices within the case. “If prices are framed, then what?… There isn’t a keep, the trial would proceed… If the trial courtroom involves a conclusion that sufficient materials is there, then it would body prices,” he remarked.
