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Abhijeet Sen March 9, 2026 5:28 PM IST
Sharjeel Imam is an accused in the 2020 Delhi riots case which left 53 people dead and more than 700 injured.
India.com News Desk September 16, 2020 5:05 PM IST
The fifteen people named in the charge sheet have been accused under sections of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, IPC and Arms Act.
IANS August 26, 2020 8:52 PM IST
The Delhi Police had moved an application for five-day remand of Imam.
India.com News Desk July 22, 2020 11:44 AM IST
Notably, Imam is currently lodged in a jail in Guwahati in connection with a case relating to an alleged inflammatory speech given by him during the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). He has alleged that Guwahati Central Jail is overcrowded and social distancing norms are also not being complied with.
India.com News Desk April 18, 2020 12:31 PM IST
The first chargesheet in connection with the case was filed in February. It named him as the 'instigator' of the violence outside the university on December 15.
India.com News Desk February 18, 2020 2:23 PM IST
Imam's name was mentioned in the chargesheet after an accused in the December 15 violence claimed that he was provoked by the former JNU scholar's inflammatory speeches.
India.com News Desk February 6, 2020 8:24 PM IST
Imam was arrested on January 28 in Bihar's Jehanabad following a video of him giving a controversial speech that went viral across social media platforms.
India.com News Desk February 5, 2020 6:01 PM IST
Replying to a written question in Rajya Sabha, Union Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy said a total of 29 people were slapped with sedition charge in Haryana in the past five years.
India.com News Desk February 5, 2020 9:45 AM IST
Urvashi Chudawala and 50 others were caught on camera allegedly raising slogans in favour of arrested JNU student Sharjeel Imam at the Mumbai Pride Solidarity Gathering 2020, which was organised at Azad Maidan.
India.com News Desk February 3, 2020 7:53 PM IST
Imam has been brought to the residence of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Purushottam Pathak at Saket Court premises.
India.com News Desk February 3, 2020 10:49 AM IST
A group of participants, whom the organisers said were not known to them, were caught on camera raising slogan of 'Sharjeel tere sapno ko manzil tak pahunchayenge' (We will make your dreams come true, Sharjeel). The Mumbai Pride Solidarity Gathering 2020 was held at Azad Maidan.
India.com News Desk January 31, 2020 8:54 AM IST
The controversial BJP leader also targeted JNU student Sharjeel Imam, saying that people like him should be 'shot dead publicly.' Imam has been charged with sedition by several states for threatening to 'cut-off Assam from the rest of India.'
India.com News Desk January 30, 2020 11:59 AM IST
News agency ANI said quoting Delhi Police sources that interrogation has revealed that "Sharjeel Imam is highly radicalized and believes that India should be an Islamic state".
India.com News Desk January 29, 2020 9:04 PM IST
Sharjeel was brought to Delhi earlier in the day. The JNU student was caught on Tuesday afternoon from Bihar's Jehanabad district when he was trying to flee in a vehicle.
India.com News Desk January 29, 2020 5:08 PM IST
Sharjeel Imam was arrested in Jehanabad, Bihar, hours after the police detained his brother while conducting a raid to nab him on Tuesday.
India.com News Desk January 29, 2020 9:46 AM IST
Four media personnel, including ANI camera persons, were injured in the incident, news agency ANI reported.
India.com News Desk January 28, 2020 10:00 PM IST
The development comes after the Crime Branch of Delhi Police earlier in the day arrested JNU student Sharjeel Imam who stoked controversy with his cut off Assam from India remark.
India.com News Desk January 28, 2020 6:18 PM IST
Imam, who has three separate sedition cases booked against him, was arrested from Bihar's Jehanabad by the Delhi Police. In a now-infamous speech at AMU on January 16, he had threatened to 'cut-off' Assam from the rest of India.
India.com Hindi News Desk January 28, 2020 3:37 PM IST
Three separate sedition FIRs have been filed against him-one each by the Assam government, the Delhi Police and the Uttar Pradesh Police- in connection with the now-infamous speech.
India.com News Desk January 28, 2020 4:03 PM IST
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said that police must have acted according to the law for wrongdoing.
India.com News Desk January 28, 2020 10:19 AM IST
As of now, Imam's brother is undergoing interrogation at Jahanabad in Bihar.
India.com News Desk January 27, 2020 9:30 PM IST
The development comes as Sharjeel Imam was on Sunday booked by the Crime Branch of Delhi Police for his controversial 'cut off Assam from India' speech that he allegedly made a few days ago at the protest site in Shaheen Bagh.
India.com News Desk January 27, 2020 11:48 AM IST
A video of Imam, threatening to cutoff Assam from the rest of India went viral on social media.
India.com News Desk January 26, 2020 5:05 PM IST
On Saturday, a clip had gone viral of Imam threatening to cutoff Assam from the rest of India. The Assam government had yesterday already filed a case of sedition against Sharjeel, a former JNU and IIT-Bombay student.
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