Via PTI
NEW DELHI: The Delhi Prime Court docket on Tuesday refused to grant bail to former JNU pupil Umar Khalid in a UAPA case associated with alleged conspiracy in the back of the riots right here in February 2020.
“There is not any benefit within the bail enchantment. Bail enchantment is disregarded,” stated a bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul and Rajnish Bhatnagar.
Khalid, arrested via Delhi Police in September 2020, sought bail on grounds that he neither had any legal function within the violence within the town’s north-east space nor any conspiratorial attach with another accused within the case.
The bail plea was once antagonistic via the Delhi Police.
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Khalid, Sharjeel Imam, and a number of other others had been booked below the anti-terror legislation Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and provisions of the Indian Penal Code for allegedly being the “masterminds” of the February 2020 riots, which had left 53 other folks useless and over 700 injured.
The violence had erupted right through the protests in opposition to CAA and NRC.
But even so Khalid, activist Khalid Saifi, JNU scholars Natasha Narwal and Devangana Kalita, Jamia Coordination Committee contributors Safoora Zargar, former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain and a number of other others have additionally been booked below the stringent legislation within the case.
NEW DELHI: The Delhi Prime Court docket on Tuesday refused to grant bail to former JNU pupil Umar Khalid in a UAPA case associated with alleged conspiracy in the back of the riots right here in February 2020.
“There is not any benefit within the bail enchantment. Bail enchantment is disregarded,” stated a bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul and Rajnish Bhatnagar.
Khalid, arrested via Delhi Police in September 2020, sought bail on grounds that he neither had any legal function within the violence within the town’s north-east space nor any conspiratorial attach with another accused within the case.
The bail plea was once antagonistic via the Delhi Police.
ALSO READ | Umar Khalid completes 2 years in prison; mom says she is ‘constructive’ of him strolling unfastened quickly
Khalid, Sharjeel Imam, and a number of other others had been booked below the anti-terror legislation Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and provisions of the Indian Penal Code for allegedly being the “masterminds” of the February 2020 riots, which had left 53 other folks useless and over 700 injured.
The violence had erupted right through the protests in opposition to CAA and NRC.
But even so Khalid, activist Khalid Saifi, JNU scholars Natasha Narwal and Devangana Kalita, Jamia Coordination Committee contributors Safoora Zargar, former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain and a number of other others have additionally been booked below the stringent legislation within the case.