Representing the Delhi Police, Special Public Prosecutor (SPP) Amit Prasad told the Delhi High Court on Wednesday, 1 September, that JNU student Sharjeel Imam commenced one of his allegedly inflammatory speeches with “As-salamu alaykum“, indicating that it was only addressing a specific religious community.
He added, “The people called upon to take action were also from one community. The speech was definitely divisive. It was not made for the general public at large but a specific community. He is attempting to create complete anarchy,” news agency PTI reported.
The Delhi Police had filed FIR 22/2020, under Sections 124A (sedition), 153A, 505 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), along with Section 13 of the contentious UAPA.
Reading out the speech made by the activist on 22 January 2020 in Asansol, he argued that the northeast Delhi Riots had occurred after four weeks of speeches at Asansol and Jharkhand.
He submitted, “He has made it abundantly clear that CAA or NRC is not the issue….