New Delhi: A Delhi court on Monday (March 9) granted ten days’ interim bail to former student activist Sharjeel Imam, who has been jailed for over five years pending trial in the 2020 Delhi riots ‘conspiracy’ case, so he can attend his brother’s wedding later this month.Additional sessions judge Sameer Bajpai of the Karkardooma courts ordered that Imam be given interim bail between March 20 and 30 and that while he is out he does not contact the press or use social media, and only interact with his family, friends and relatives, Bar and Bench reported.Imam was also required to furnish a personal bond of Rs 50,000 alongside two sureties of the like amount.He had sought relief for six weeks, from March 15 to April 26, to attend the wedding on March 25 and spend time with his family during Eid but the court gave him ten days’ interim bail, per PTI.First held in January 2020 for speeches he had made during protests against the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), Imam has over time been granted bail in a number of cases but remains jailed in the Delhi police’s case alleging his participation in a ‘larger conspiracy’ behind the communal Delhi riots of February that year in which more than 50 people were killed.The Delhi high court and, earlier this year, the Supreme Court have denied regular bail to Imam in the case, which invokes among other provisions sections of the anti-terror Unlawful (Activities) Prevention Act against him.In January this year the apex court granted bail to those accused who were still in jail in the ‘larger conspiracy’ case except Imam and Umar Khalid, whom the bench said stood on a qualitatively different footing compared to the other defendants.“This court is satisfied that the prosecution material disclosed a prima facie allegation against the appellants Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam. The statutory threshold stands attracted qua these appellants. This stage of proceedings do not justify their enlargement on bail,” the bench had said.Much of the Delhi police’s case rests on the accused activists’ presence or participation in WhatsApp groups during the time of the nationwide protests against the CAA.Questions continue to hover over the Delhi police’s partisan role in investigating the violence.