Overview

• He filed the interim bail application before Additional Sessions Judge Sameer Bajpai at Delhi’s Karkardooma Courts in the 2020 riots ‘larger conspiracy’ case registered as FIR 59/2020 under UAPA.
• He requests release from October 15 to 29 to personally file nomination papers and campaign in Bahadurganj, where nominations run from October 13 to 20.
• The former JNU scholar has been lodged in Tihar since August 25, 2020, and states he has not received bail even temporarily during this period.
• The Delhi High Court rejected his regular-bail plea in September, and his challenge to that order is pending before the Supreme Court.
• The plea cites precedents of election-related interim bail, notes he is contesting as an independent with only his brother available to manage logistics, and is expected to be listed before the Karkardooma court on Tuesday.