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Sharjeel Imam files bail plea to contest elections
The Morning Standard
|October 14, 2025
STUDENT activist Sharjeel Imam, accused in the larger conspiracy behind the 2020 riots case, has moved the court seeking 14-day interim bail to file his nomination and campaign in the upcoming Bihar assembly elections.
The plea, filed before Additional Sessions Judge Sammer Bajpai, states that Imam, a permanent resident of Bihar, was arrested on August 25, 2020, while in his final year of a PhD program at JNU
This story is from the October 14, 2025 edition of The Morning Standard.
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