Delhi Court to hear on August 13, Bail plea of former JNU student Umar Khalid in connection with Delhi Riots

A Delhi Court will hear on August 23, bail plea of former JNU student Umar Khalid in the unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) case against him in connection with the Northeast Delhi riots.

The case was listed today before Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat who adjourned the matter for next hearing on August 23, 2021

The Delhi Police in the previous hearing had told the Court that Khalid’s bail application did not have any merits.

The Delhi Police, in their chargesheet have alleged that Khalid “begrudgingly accepted the idea of India in 2016, with a plan to break up India in 2020 where all relations were based on the concept of Ummah, with total decimation of secular, national identities”.

On September 13, 2020, Khalid was arrested in connection with communal clashes that broke out in northeast Delhi in February 2020, after violence between Citizenship (Amendment) Act supporters and its protesters became out of control leaving many people dead and several injured.

Khalid was granted bail in April in another case but has been languishing in Tihar Jail over conspiracy charges under UAPA.

Besides Khalid, several others including Natasha Narwal, Devangana Kalita, Safoora Zargar, Asif Iqbal Tanha and former Aam Aadmi Party councillor Tahir Hussain have also been booked under the UAPA.