New Delhi: The Supreme Court has stayed the sedition law. After this decision of the top court, what will happen to the accused now imprisoned in jails on charges of sedition? The debate about this continues. At the same time, now the accused have started filing petitions for bail on the basis of this decision. Jawahar Lal University (JNU) alumnus Sharjeel Imam, imprisoned on sedition charges, has filed a bail plea in the Delhi High Court.
In the bail plea filed by Sharjeel Imam, it has been claimed that he has been lodged on the charge of sedition and the sedition law has been stayed by the apex court. It has also been claimed by Sharjeel Imam that the sessions court had refused bail only because of the serious charge of sedition. This petition of Sharjeel Imam can be heard in the Delhi High Court on Monday i.e. 16 May. It has also been said in the petition that except under sections 124-A and 153A of the IPC, no other case has been registered by the prosecution. It has also been said in Sharjeel's bail plea that the petitioner has been imprisoned in jail for about 27 months. If sedition is removed, then there is a provision of maximum punishment of three years imprisonment under section 153A of IPC.
The bail plea filed by Sharjeel Imam is likely to be heard in the Delhi High Court on May 16. Let us inform that in December 2019 and January-February 2020, Sharjeel Imam gave provocative speeches during the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). For these speeches, cases were registered against Sharjeel Imam under sections 124A and 153A of sedition.
What was Sharjeel Imam's statement:-
Although the speech of Sharjeel Imam is very long, but here we are placing that part in front of the readers, in which things that are provocative and harming the integrity of the country have been said. In the anti-CAA program, Sharjeel had said that 'Now the time has come for us to speak to the non-Muslims that if they are our sympathizers, then come and stand on our terms. If they don't stand on our terms, they are not our sympathizers. If 5 lakh people are organized with us, then we can separate the North-East from India by cutting it off permanently. If not permanently, at least for a month or a half, you can cut Assam from India. Pour so much pus on the tracks, on the road that it would take a month to remove them. If you want to go, then go by Air Force. You can also watch its video on You Tube.
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