India, July 3 -- Safdar Nagori, the former general secretary of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) who was convicted of sedition, has approached the Supreme Court seeking clarification of its order freezing sedition proceedings includes his belated appeal before the Madhya Pradesh High Court.

Nagori was convicted in February 2017 by a trial court in Indore and was sentenced to life imprisonment. He had challenged his conviction and sentence before the Indore bench of the MP high court which had heard the matter on several occasions.

During the last leg of arguments on May 15 this year, the high court was confronted with an order of the top court issued in May 2022 directing all proceedings related to sedition to be kep...