Sharjeel Imam was booked for sedition in 2020 for allegedly making inflammatory speeches at AMU and Jamia Millia Islamia with respect to the Citizenship Amendment Act.
The court further noted that the contents of Imam's anti-CAA speeches given at Delhi's Jamia Millia Islamia, and Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), could be termed “seditious” in the “dictionary meaning”.
The case pertains to an FIR lodged in March 2020 at Karawal Nagar Police Station where two complainants, Afsar and Mohd. Ashfaq, alleged that their properties in adjacent streets in Karawal Nagar were vandalised, robbed, and set on fire by a mob.