Appearing before a bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and N.V. Anjaria, Raju played a montage of video clips allegedly showing Imam calling for blocking the “chicken neck” corridor and proposing strategies to “paralyse Delhi” through chakka jams. The ASG said these speeches revealed a clear intention to cripple essential supply chains such as milk and vegetables, thereby destabilising the capital.

Raju also pointed out that Imam, an engineer by qualification, represented what he described as a growing trend of “intellectuals, doctors and engineers abandoning their professions for anti-national activities”. He further said that the accused often received sympathetic international coverage, especially from foreign media outlets, creating an “intellectual façade” that masked the scale of the conspiracy.

Defence counsel Siddhartha Dave countered that the police were showing selective snippets from hours-long speeches to create prejudice, insisting that the full recordings conveyed a different meaning. The court questioned whether presenting videos at the bail stage amounted to an evaluation of evidence, but Raju maintained that he was only summarising the charge sheet.

The Supreme Court will resume hearing the matter on Friday.

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