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Delhi Riots Accused Sharjeel Imam Moves Court Seeking Interim Bail to File Nomination for Bihar Polls
Sharjeel Imam seeks two-week interim bail to file nomination papers and campaign independently in Bihar elections while in judicial custody for over five years.
- From October 15 to October 29, 2025, Sharjeel Imam filed a 14-day interim bail plea before Additional Sessions Judge Sameer Bajpai at Karkardooma Courts to contest Bihar polls from Bahadurganj constituency.
- Police records show Imam was arrested on Aug. 25, 2020 while a final-year PhD student at Jawaharlal Nehru University, and the case stems from FIR 59 of 2020 with charges under UAPA, 1967.
- The plea argues he is a political prisoner and a student activist and must be allowed to contest, noting he has been in continuous judicial custody for more than 5 years and the nomination period is October 13 to October 20, 2025.
- After a September 2 denial by the Delhi High Court, the Supreme Court of India issued notice on September 22, and the interim bail application is scheduled for hearing tomorrow before the Karkardooma Courts as Bahadurganj polls on November 11, 2025.
- Five chargesheets filed from September 16, 2020 to June 7, 2023 map the probe's scope, with eighteen accused booked and twelve of them still in jail.
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Sharjeel Imam Withdraws Bail Plea in Delhi Court to Contest Bihar Polls
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. Sharjeel Imam, a Delhi riots case accused, withdrew his interim bail plea on Tuesday from the Karkardooma Court to file his nomination. He had filed the plea seeking 14 days' interim bail to contest the Bihar Assembly elections as an independent candidate from the Bahadurganj constituency. India News | Sharjeel Imam Withdraws Bail Plea in Delhi Court to Contest Bihar Polls.
Delhi riots accused Sharjeel Imam moves court seeking interim bail to file nomination for Bihar polls
In the plea, Imam describes himself as a ‘political prisoner and student activist’ and submits that he intends to participate in the Bihar Assembly elections, scheduled to be held in two phases between October 10 and November 16.
·New Delhi, India
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