SC: Can Sharjeel Imam be prosecuted in different states over single speech?
April 30, 2025
|The Morning Standard
THE Supreme Court on Tuesday asked whether former JNU student Sharjeel Imam can be prosecuted in different states for offences including sedition over a single speech.
The top court was hearing Imam's 2020 plea seeking the clubbing of multiple FIRs registered against him across four states—Uttar Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, and Arunachal Pradesh—for an alleged inflammatory speech delivered during protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA).
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