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After the SC denied bail to Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam on Monday, controversial slogans were allegedly raised on the campus.
The CPI(M) said in a post on X that the continued denial of bail is against the principles of natural justice. The Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) is being used to crush dissent, it charged.
Umar Khalid was arrested in September 2020 for his alleged role as one of the “masterminds” behind the riots, which left 53 people dead and over 700 injured.
The protest followed a Supreme Court decision on Friday to adjourn hearing on the bail applications of the accused for another week.
Denying bail to nine persons in the 'larger conspiracy' case of the riots, the high court had ruled that 'conspiratorial' violence under the garb of demonstrations or protests by citizens cannot be allowed
“The probative value of the evidence against the Appellants Sharjeel Imam and Umar Khalid, prima facie and at this stage, cannot be branded as weak,” the court said in the order running 133 pages.
A bench of Justices Navin Chawla and Shalinder Kaur, which reserved its order on July 9 after noting the arguments on behalf of the prosecution and various accused, is hearing the pleas.
Imam assailed a trial court order refusing to grant him bail even though he has undergone more than half of the maximum sentence that can be awarded to him in case of a conviction.
The agency filed the final report under various sections including 124-A (Sedition), 153(A) (Promoting enmity), 153-A (promoting enmity, Hatred between different communities), 153-B (Assertion prejudicial to national integration) and 505 (spreading rumors) of IPC and under the sections of stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
The top court gave another opportunity to the Delhi government to file its response on Imam's plea which also sought the transfer of all criminal cases against him to the national capital and probe by a single agency.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Gurmohina Kaur sent Imam to the custody after the police said that another accused in the case disclosed that he was allegedly provoked by Sharjeel's speeches.
Imam came under the police’s scanner in January for allegedly making a seditious and inflammatory speech while addressing the anti-citizenship law protestors at Shaheen Bagh
Attacking Sharjeel for delivering an “anti-national and separatist” speech, the article labelled the JNU student as “more dangerous than Leftist leader Kanhaiya Kumar”.
Imam was arrested on Tuesday for making allegedly inflammatory speeches at the Jamia Millia Islamia University here and in Aligarh. He reached Delhi on Wednesday and will be produced in the Patiala House court the same day, they said.
She also said that the JNU scholar has not yet been brought to Delhi and they are in the process of figuring out details.
Speaking at an event, Shah also said Sharjeel has been arrested by Delhi police and is being brought to Delhi to be put behind bars.
The former JNU student's mother has also blamed the police of harassing and threatening her family over Imam's recent speech
