The Bombay Excessive Court docket on Friday (August 14) granted interim safety from arrest to Kamakhya Prasad Das, a former TISS pupil, who was booked for elevating slogans “to free Umar Khalid & Sharjeel Imam.”
Justice Prafulla Khubalkar agreed to listen to Das’ plea searching for anticipatory bail on August 31 and granted him interim safety from arrest within the meantime.
Notably, a Mumbai Court had last week denied anticipatory bail to Das and one other pupil – Abhirup Paul, each of whom have been arrested for collaborating in a good organised to pay homage to GN Saibaba.
The police claimed that in this occasion, the 2 college students raised slogans for releasing Imam and Khalid.
Extra Periods Decide VB Bohra had mentioned that the Supreme Court docket had denied bail to Sharjeel Imam and Umar Khalid and thus college students should respect the regulation of the land.
The Court docket had refused to grant bail to Abhirup Paul (32) and Kamakhya Prasad Das (23) who together with a number of different college students have been named in an FIR lodged in October 2025 by the Mumbai Police for collaborating within the occasion to pay homage to Saibaba and likewise for studying out his poems and sloganeering to free Sharjeel and Umar.
Nonetheless, it granted anticipatory bail to Nikita Dsouza, Uttkarsh Khuntia, Yash Kaundilya, Avantika and Ishpreet Kaur.
Whereas the scholars argued that Saibaba was acquitted from the UAPA case, there was additionally no offence made out solely to say “Sharjeel ko riha karo, Umar ko riha karo”
The choose nonetheless opined, “Little doubt, GN Saibaba got here to be acquitted of costs leveled towards him and subsequently, act of paying homage to him by accused individuals can’t be termed as unlawful. Nonetheless, the act of accused individuals gave the impression to be not restricted to pay him homage. They even allegedly raised slogans within the nature of releasing Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam from jail, who’re going through trial for an offence underneath UAPA i.e. illegal actions towards the Nation. It was not the platform for elevating such slogans. In different phrases, such slogans weren’t made in a public agitation or procession. The Apex Court docket had been happy to reject bail purposes of Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam. Being college students, it was anticipated from accused individuals to respect the Regulation of Land.“
Case title: Kamakhya Prasad Das v/s State of Maharashtra
