Sharjeel Imam was granted statutory bail by the Delhi High Court in the 2020 communal riots involving sedition charges. He was granted the bail under Section 436A of the CrPC as he had already spent four years in jail out of the maximum sentence of seven years. What are the other provisions for undertrials?
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The Supreme Court has dismissed petitions seeking a review of its December 2023 judgment, which upheld the government's August 2019 decision to abrogate Article 370 of the Constitution, ending the special status of Jammu and Kashmir
NEW DELHI: A reconsideration petition has been filed in the Supreme Court of India concerning the revocation of Article 370, which previously granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir. The Supreme Court, which had earlier upheld the validity of the central government’s decision to annul this constitutional provision, is set to hear the case again on May 1.
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The Supreme Court of India is set to review the validity of central government s 2019 decision to abrogate Article 370 of the Constitution, which granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir. The pleas seeking the review of the judgment, where the court upheld the validity of the decision, is scheduled to be heard on May 1.