Sharjeel Imam Age, Girlfriend, Wife, Family, Biography & More

Some Lesser Known Facts About Sharjeel Imam

• Sharjeel Imam’s father, Syed Akbar Imam, contested Bihar Assembly Elections in 2005 and lost by a margin of 447 votes to S N Yadav (RJD). He later died due to bone cancer, in 2014.

• Sharjeel’s younger brother, Muzzammil Imam is a social activist and former State President of Rashtriya Yuva Samta Party. He has actively participated in the Anti-CAA protests.

• Sharjeel has always had a keen interest in Islamic theories.

• According to what Sharjeel has articulated in one of his writings for a news portal, being a sole Muslim in the class of 200 students, he had to endure prejudice during his days at the IIT Bombay. ^[2]Firstpost

• In his final year at the IIT Bombay, Sharjeel worked as a teaching assistant at the university.

• After quitting his job as a software developer, Sharjeel Imam entered JNU in 2013, owing to its reputation as the “fort of secularism,” and their struggles against the tyrannical forces.

• Sharjeel Imam was a member of AISA, a student party in the JNU campus, from 2013 to 2015. However, due to a few differences, he left the party shortly after the incident of Najeeb Ahmad’s disappearance, following a spat with some of the members of ABVP (student party).

• Sharjeel’s former teachers recognise him as an intelligent & ingenious student. “I don’t know anyone who has such a stronghold over Indian history. He could talk about Eqbal Ahmad and Allama Iqbal at length,” said Afreen Fatima, one of his JNU friends.

• Sharjeel organised protests against CAA at Shaheen Bagh and other places in Delhi. He resorted to forming a movement under the name of “Chakka Jam,” which involved blocking all the major routes in Delhi, and he even wanted to spread this movement across the country.

• In the charge sheet filed by Delhi Police in the December 15 Jamia Milia violence case, Imam was named as the prime suspect who incited the riots. ^[3]Indiatoday

• Reportedly, Sharjeel delivered inflammatory speeches at different locations in Delhi. He absconded immediately after a video clip from one of his speeches, which he had delivered at Aligarh Muslim University emerged online. The speech included anti-national statements. Subsequently, FIR was lodged against him in Delhi and several other states. Eventually, on 28 January 2020, he was arrested from his hometown Kako, Jehanabad, in a joint operation by Delhi and Bihar police, on the charges of sedition, spreading communal hatred and inciting people for violence.