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  • 2020 Delhi riots: Umar Khalid’s plea for bail in UAPA case to be heard on July 24

    By way of PTI

    NEW DELHI: The Excellent Court docket on Wednesday mentioned it will listen on July 24 a plea by way of former JNU pupil Umar Khalid looking for bail in a UAPA case associated with the alleged conspiracy at the back of the riots right here in February 2020.

    The Delhi Police sought time to answer the petition right through the listening to earlier than a bench of Justices A S Bopanna and M M Sundresh.

    Recommend Rajat Nair, showing for the Delhi Police, recommended the bench to grant him a while to report a counter affidavit within the subject.

    “In a bail subject, what counter is to be filed. The person is within for 2 years and 10 months,” mentioned senior recommend Kapil Sibal, representing Khalid. Nair mentioned he’s praying for a little while to report a counter within the subject.

    “The fee sheet is voluminous. It runs into hundreds of pages,” he mentioned whilst inquiring for the bench to grant them some “affordable time”.

    “It must had been in a position these days,” the bench noticed and posted the subject for listening to on July 24.

    On Might 18, the apex court docket sought a reaction from the Delhi Police on Khalid’s plea. In his attraction, Khalid has challenged the Delhi Top Court docket order refusing him bail within the case.

    On October 18 final 12 months, the Top Court docket rejected his bail plea pronouncing he used to be in consistent contact with different co-accused and that allegations in opposition to him are prima facie true.

    The Top Court docket had additionally mentioned the movements of the accused prima facie certified as a “terrorist act” below the anti-terror regulation UAPA.

    Khalid, Sharjeel Imam, and a number of other others had been booked below the anti-terror regulation Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and provisions of the Indian Penal Code for allegedly being the “masterminds” of the February 2020 riots, which left 53 other folks useless and over 700 injured.

    ALSO READ | Delhi riots case: Activists stand in cohesion as Umar Khalid completes 1,000 days of incarceration

    The violence had erupted right through the protests in opposition to CAA and NRC.

    Khalid, arrested by way of the Delhi Police in September 2020, had sought bail on grounds that he neither had any legal function within the violence nor any “conspiratorial attach” with some other accused within the case.

    Earlier than the prime court docket, the Delhi Police had hostile the bail plea by way of Khalid, pronouncing the speech delivered by way of him used to be “very calculated” and taken up problems like Babri Masjid, triple talaq, Kashmir, the alleged suppression of Muslims and Citizenship (Modification) Act (CAA) and Nationwide Check in of Electorate (NRC).

    ALSO READ | 2020 Delhi riots: HC grants bail to former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain in 5 circumstances

    NEW DELHI: The Excellent Court docket on Wednesday mentioned it will listen on July 24 a plea by way of former JNU pupil Umar Khalid looking for bail in a UAPA case associated with the alleged conspiracy at the back of the riots right here in February 2020.

    The Delhi Police sought time to answer the petition right through the listening to earlier than a bench of Justices A S Bopanna and M M Sundresh.

    Recommend Rajat Nair, showing for the Delhi Police, recommended the bench to grant him a while to report a counter affidavit within the subject.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    “In a bail subject, what counter is to be filed. The person is within for 2 years and 10 months,” mentioned senior recommend Kapil Sibal, representing Khalid. Nair mentioned he’s praying for a little while to report a counter within the subject.

    “The fee sheet is voluminous. It runs into hundreds of pages,” he mentioned whilst inquiring for the bench to grant them some “affordable time”.

    “It must had been in a position these days,” the bench noticed and posted the subject for listening to on July 24.

    On Might 18, the apex court docket sought a reaction from the Delhi Police on Khalid’s plea. In his attraction, Khalid has challenged the Delhi Top Court docket order refusing him bail within the case.

    On October 18 final 12 months, the Top Court docket rejected his bail plea pronouncing he used to be in consistent contact with different co-accused and that allegations in opposition to him are prima facie true.

    The Top Court docket had additionally mentioned the movements of the accused prima facie certified as a “terrorist act” below the anti-terror regulation UAPA.

    Khalid, Sharjeel Imam, and a number of other others had been booked below the anti-terror regulation Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and provisions of the Indian Penal Code for allegedly being the “masterminds” of the February 2020 riots, which left 53 other folks useless and over 700 injured.

    ALSO READ | Delhi riots case: Activists stand in cohesion as Umar Khalid completes 1,000 days of incarceration

    The violence had erupted right through the protests in opposition to CAA and NRC.

    Khalid, arrested by way of the Delhi Police in September 2020, had sought bail on grounds that he neither had any legal function within the violence nor any “conspiratorial attach” with some other accused within the case.

    Earlier than the prime court docket, the Delhi Police had hostile the bail plea by way of Khalid, pronouncing the speech delivered by way of him used to be “very calculated” and taken up problems like Babri Masjid, triple talaq, Kashmir, the alleged suppression of Muslims and Citizenship (Modification) Act (CAA) and Nationwide Check in of Electorate (NRC).

    ALSO READ | 2020 Delhi riots: HC grants bail to former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain in 5 circumstances

  • Journalist Siddique Kappan denied bail via Allahabad Prime Court docket in UAPA case

    By way of Specific Information Carrier

    LUCKNOW: The Lucknow Bench of Allahabad Prime Court docket on Thursday rejected the bail plea of Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan, who was once arrested in conjunction with 3 others in October 2020 whilst on his strategy to Hathras after the alleged gang-rape and homicide of a 19-year-old Dalit lady. Kappan and his mates had been booked underneath Illegal Actions Prevention Act (UAPA).

    The bail plea of the journalist was once rejected via the only decide bench comprising Justice Krishan Pahal who had reserved the order after the arguments had been concluded via accused and state counsels on August 2.

    A Mathura court docket had rejected Kappan’s bail plea and then he had approached the Prime Court docket.

    Justice Pahal attributed the rejection of bail plea to a prima facie case being established via the prosecution. The decide mentioned travelling with co-accused who didn’t belong to the media fraternity in addition to tainted cash being utilized by him and his accomplices had been an important instances going in opposition to him.

    “The contaminated cash being utilized by the applicant and his colleagues can’t be dominated out,” mentioned the single-judge. The Court docket additionally rejected Kappan’s declare that he was once visiting Hathras to fulfil his journalistic accountability via announcing that it was once nullified via the claims made via the prosecution within the fee sheet.

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    The prosecution’s allegations had been that Kappan and the co-accused had been travelling to Hathras with an aim to disturb team spirit within the space. It was once mentioned that they had been amassing price range to run a web site stuffed with incorrect information and to incite violence.

    They had been charged underneath Sections 17 and 18 of Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act (UAPA), and Segment 124A (sedition), Segment 153A (selling enmity between other teams on flooring of faith) and Segment 295A (planned and malicious acts meant to outrage non secular emotions) of the Indian Penal Code, in conjunction with Sections 65, 72 and 75 of the Knowledge Generation Act.

    Alternatively, Kappan’s recommend denied all allegations, pointing out that he was once going to Hathras to discharge his accountability as a qualified journalist, when he was once illegally detained via the UP Police in violation of his elementary rights.

    Moreover, it was once mentioned that Kappan by no means used any platform to unfold disharmony or additional magnificence or communal warfare. To the contrary, the prosecution argued that Kappan, a resident of Kerala, had not anything to do with Hathras incident and was once there with mala fide intent. It was once additionally submitted via the prosecution that Kappan had performed a secret workshop with an intention to incite riots around the nation via raking up problems with Citizenship Modification Act (CAA) and the Babri Masjid demolition.

    Whilst rejecting the bail plea, the Court docket mentioned that owing to the character of the offence, the proof on report, and taking into account the complicity of the accused and the severity of the punishment, the Court docket discovered Kappan’s bail software to be devoid of advantage, and pushed aside it.

    LUCKNOW: The Lucknow Bench of Allahabad Prime Court docket on Thursday rejected the bail plea of Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan, who was once arrested in conjunction with 3 others in October 2020 whilst on his strategy to Hathras after the alleged gang-rape and homicide of a 19-year-old Dalit lady. Kappan and his mates had been booked underneath Illegal Actions Prevention Act (UAPA).

    The bail plea of the journalist was once rejected via the only decide bench comprising Justice Krishan Pahal who had reserved the order after the arguments had been concluded via accused and state counsels on August 2.

    A Mathura court docket had rejected Kappan’s bail plea and then he had approached the Prime Court docket.

    Justice Pahal attributed the rejection of bail plea to a prima facie case being established via the prosecution. The decide mentioned travelling with co-accused who didn’t belong to the media fraternity in addition to tainted cash being utilized by him and his accomplices had been an important instances going in opposition to him.

    “The contaminated cash being utilized by the applicant and his colleagues can’t be dominated out,” mentioned the single-judge. The Court docket additionally rejected Kappan’s declare that he was once visiting Hathras to fulfil his journalistic accountability via announcing that it was once nullified via the claims made via the prosecution within the fee sheet.

    ALSO READ | India tops checklist of countries searching for blocking off tweets via newshounds, information corporations: Twitter document

    The prosecution’s allegations had been that Kappan and the co-accused had been travelling to Hathras with an aim to disturb team spirit within the space. It was once mentioned that they had been amassing price range to run a web site stuffed with incorrect information and to incite violence.

    They had been charged underneath Sections 17 and 18 of Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act (UAPA), and Segment 124A (sedition), Segment 153A (selling enmity between other teams on flooring of faith) and Segment 295A (planned and malicious acts meant to outrage non secular emotions) of the Indian Penal Code, in conjunction with Sections 65, 72 and 75 of the Knowledge Generation Act.

    Alternatively, Kappan’s recommend denied all allegations, pointing out that he was once going to Hathras to discharge his accountability as a qualified journalist, when he was once illegally detained via the UP Police in violation of his elementary rights.

    Moreover, it was once mentioned that Kappan by no means used any platform to unfold disharmony or additional magnificence or communal warfare. To the contrary, the prosecution argued that Kappan, a resident of Kerala, had not anything to do with Hathras incident and was once there with mala fide intent. It was once additionally submitted via the prosecution that Kappan had performed a secret workshop with an intention to incite riots around the nation via raking up problems with Citizenship Modification Act (CAA) and the Babri Masjid demolition.

    Whilst rejecting the bail plea, the Court docket mentioned that owing to the character of the offence, the proof on report, and taking into account the complicity of the accused and the severity of the punishment, the Court docket discovered Kappan’s bail software to be devoid of advantage, and pushed aside it.

  • UAPA case: SIA conducts raids at quite a lot of puts alongside LoC in Poonch

    Through PTI

    JAMMU: The State Investigation Company (SIA) on Saturday carried out raids at quite a lot of vital places within the border district of Poonch right here in reference to a terrorism-related case, officers mentioned.

    A different crew of SIA Jammu visited the border district of Poonch in reference to the investigation of the most important case of Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act, they mentioned.

    The crew visited quite a lot of vital places at the border and carried out seek and seizure, they mentioned.

    It’s price bringing up right here that Director SIA after reviewing the running of SIA Jammu has issued strict instructions to hurry up investigations to unearth terror networks.

    The SIA is a specialised company constituted via the federal government of Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir for the investigation and prosecution of terrorism-related circumstances.