{"id":294080,"date":"2022-12-07T14:07:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T08:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/?p=294080"},"modified":"2022-12-07T14:39:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T09:09:18","slug":"sharjeel-imam-sc-expunge-remarks-delhi-hc-umar-khalid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/constitutional-law-news\/supreme-court-news\/sharjeel-imam-sc-expunge-remarks-delhi-hc-umar-khalid\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharjeel Imam moves SC seeking to expunge remarks made\u00a0against him by Delhi HC during Umar Khalid’s bail plea hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Former JNU student Sharjeel Imam has filed a Special Leave Petition in the Supreme Court<\/a>, seeking direction to the Delhi High Court<\/a> to expunge the remarks made against him, while rejecting the bail application of Umar Khalid in the larger conspiracy case, which resulted in riots in the national capital in February, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On October\u00a018, the Delhi High Court<\/a>, while rejecting the bail application of Delhi Riots accused Umar Khalid, had observed that it found it a ‘little difficult’ to accept the contention that a string of commonality did not exist among all the accused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Division Bench of Justice Siddharth Mridul and Justice Rajnish Bhatnagar made the observation in response to Senior Advocate Trideep Pais’s argument that lower court misinterpreted witness statements to draw a connection between Khalid and Imam,when they have never spoken to each other. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Appearing for Khalid, Pais had argued that he was being ‘lumped’ with a person, who had called for a ‘deeply communal’ protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The High Court had further noted that both Khalid and Imam were members of the same WhatsApp group and also took part in the protest at Jantar Mantar.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n