December 18, 2025
The Allahabad High Court dismissed applications filed by Azad seeking to quash or merge five FIRs stemming from a May 9, 2017 incident (Shaharanpur Riots), in which a mob of 250-300 people allegedly caused violence, arson, and damage to public property. The Court noted a possible “larger conspiracy” due to Chandrashekhar’s political position and the alleged involvement of party workers. It also refused to quash or consolidate the cases, citing the advanced stage of the trials.
June 2024
Chandrashekhar Azad won the 2024 Lok Sabha election from Nagina, Uttar Pradesh.
March 15, 2020
Azad founded the Aazad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram).
February 25, 2020
Chandrashekhar Azad and Bahadur Abbas Naqvi filed an interlocutory application seeking directions for police and other authorities in the backdrop of violence that took place in North East Delhi on February 23-24.
February 12, 2020
Chandrashekhar Azad filed an application seeking to intervene in the pending case in the Supreme Court that had asked the Court to order clearing of protest sites. His application the administration deliberately blocked various other roads connecting Delhi to Noida and Faridabad on the pretext of Shaheen Bagh demonstrations (which have been completely peaceful); deliberately to create a situation where the public is inconvenienced.
February 11, 2020
Azad files a review petition against Supreme Court’s decision in Mukhesh Kumar vs. State of Uttarakhand. The Court had held that provisions in Article 16 are enabling provisions, and cannot be considered to be fundamental rights in themselves. The Court effectively held that reservation in promotions is not a fundamental right, and state governments are not obligated to provide it, nor can courts issue a mandamus to compel them.
January 26, 2020
Azad was detained in Hyderabad barely 10 days after he got bail. The police used Section 151 CrPC (It allows for preventive detention) to detain him as he did not take permission for his prospective protests. Following this detention, he was forcibly sent back to Delhi.
January 21, 2020
The Sessions Court accepted Azad’s plea, allowing him to come to Delhi whenever for election purposes. The judge discarded the prosecution's submission that Azad had indulged in hate speech.
January 17, 2020
Azad approaches the Sessions Curt to modify his bail condition that disallowed him to come to Delhi for four weeks.
January 15, 2020
Azad is granted bail by the Session Court on several conditions. The judge held there is no prima facie evidence incriminating Azad. He furnished a bail bond worth Rs. 25,000. He was further barred from coming to Delhi for the following four weeks owing to the Delhi Assembly elections. The court directed the Delhi Police to escort Azad to his residence in Saharanpur within 24 hours of his release. The court also said that before going to Saharanpur if Azad wants to go anywhere, including Jama Masjid, in Delhi until 24 hours, the police would escort him there. One of the conditions included taking DCP Crime’s permission before coming to AIIMS, Delhi, as his health condition was poor.
January 13, 2020
Azad moves the Delhi Sessions Court for bail. His plea states that the FIR does not establish any motive, and the charges appear to have been added mechanically. The accusation of unlawful assembly is questionable, as the protestors were never declared unlawful nor warned by the police. Since all key witnesses are police officials, the likelihood of witness tampering is minimal. Moreover, as per the bail plea, the content of the FIR was “vague” and “conjectures and surmises”, as Azad was trying to maintain peace at all times.
January 9, 2020
The Court allowed this, pulled up Tihar jail authorities, directed them to provide medical treatment to him at AIIMS.
January 6, 2020
Azad goes to the Sessions Court for permission to access medical facilities while being in judicial custody as he was suffering from polycythaemia.
December 21, 2019
Tis Hazari (Sessions Court) denied him bail and he was remanded to judicial custody. He argued, he was absent from Delhi Gate in Daryaganj (place where the violence broke out) and his role in the Daryaganj violence was limited to the FIR itself. He said he did not give any speech but only read the Constitution. He further maintained that police did not have any evidence to suggest he played a role in the violence.
December 21, 2019
Azad is taken into custody. He was protesting against the amendments to the Citizenship laws outside Jama Masjid. He was one of the forty people arrested in connection to the clash between protestors and police.
October 19, 2019
Azad is granted bail by the Delhi Sessions Court.
August 22, 2019
Azad, along with 100 other Dalit protestors, are arrested again in connection with the violence that broke out in Delhi. The violence took place in the backdrop of Dalit protests against the demolition of a temple by Delhi Development Authority. The charges levelled against him included rioting, unlawful assembly, assaulting public servant, damaging public property and causing injury to people etc.
September 14, 2018
Azad was released from detention. Following his release he said “The government was scared that they would be rebuked by the Supreme Court for arresting me so they have decided to release me early.”
August 13, 2018
Azad moves the Supreme Court after the Allahabad High Court declined to quash his detention. He said the order has been passed mechanically and voiced how his detention was extended from three months to six months and then to nine months. His lawyer also called out the detention to be a “political prosecution” and expressive of State’s “anti-Dalit” attitude. His counsel also argued how it was an inappropriate use of NSA.
May 2, 2018
The Advisory board of the NSA extended his detention until November 2, 2018.
April 26, 2018
Allahabad High Court dismisses Azad’s plea to quash the detention order. The decision came after the Uttar Pradesh government submitted to the High Court that, if Chandrashekhar Azad were to be released, he would indulge in activities which would ‘spread caste feeling’ and ‘have adverse impact on maintenance of law and order’.
January 27, 2018
UP government extended Azad’s detention until May 2018.
November, 2017
Azad was sent to a hospital in Meerut because of deteriorating medical condition.
November 17, 2017
The District magistrate dismissed Azad’s representation.
November 14, 2017
Azad moves the Trial Court challenging the order passed on November 3, 2017.
November 3, 2017
Uttar Pradesh government detained Azad under the National Security Act, 1980 (using Sections 3(1)(a), (b), (2), (3), (4), (5), that allows for detention of persons who are considered to be a threat to national security) till February, 2018.
November 2, 2017
The Allahabad High Court grants bail to Azad on all charges.
June 8, 2017
Chandrashekhar Azad along with 40 other Bhim Army were arrested, 23 separate charges were levelled against him in connection to the violence that occurred between the Thakurs and Dalits in Saharanpur in the aftermath of Dalit protests. It is important to note he was not present during the protests.
