The Supreme Courtroom is listening to the bail pleas filed by Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam, Gulfisha Fatima, Meeran Haider, Shadab Ahmed and Mohd Saleem Khan inside the greater conspiracy case in relation to the 2020 North East Delhi riots.
A Bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and NV Anjaria is listening to the matter.
Khalid and others moved the very best court docket docket in opposition to the Delhi Extreme Courtroom’s September 2 order denying them bail. The best court docket docket had issued uncover to the police on September 22.
The riots occurred in February 2020 following clashes over the then-proposed Citizenship Modification Act (CAA). As per the Delhi Police, the riots triggered the dying of 53 people and injured tons of.
The present case pertains to allegations that the accused had hatched an even bigger conspiracy to set off numerous riots. The FIR on this case was registered by a Specific Cell of the Delhi Police beneath different provisions of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the UAPA.
Lots of the accused had been booked in numerous FIRs, leading to numerous bail petitions sooner than completely totally different courts. Most have been in custody since 2020.
Khalid was arrested in September 2020 and charged with felony conspiracy, rioting, unlawful assembly, along with numerous totally different offences beneath the Unlawful Actions Prevention Act (UAPA).
He has been in jail since then.
The trial court docket docket had first denied him bail in March 2022. He then approached the Extreme Courtroom, which moreover denied him assist in October 2022, prompting him to file an enchantment sooner than the very best court docket docket.
In Might 2023, the Supreme Courtroom sought the response of the Delhi Police inside the matter. His plea sooner than the very best court docket docket was then adjourned 14 events.
On February 14, 2024, he withdrew his bail plea from the Supreme Courtroom, citing a change in circumstances.
On Might 28, the trial court docket docket rejected his second bail petition. An enchantment in opposition to the equivalent was dismissed by the Delhi Extreme Courtroom on September 2, prompting the present plea sooner than the apex court docket docket.
Imam too was booked in numerous FIRs all through numerous States, largely beneath sedition and UAPA charges.
Inside the case registered over speeches he gave at Jamia Milia Islamia Faculty and Aligarh Muslim Faculty, he was granted bail by the Delhi Extreme Courtroom remaining yr. Inside the sedition circumstances registered in Aligarh and Guwahati, he was granted bail by the Allahabad Extreme Courtroom in 2021 and the Gauhati Extreme Courtroom in 2020, respectively. He was moreover booked in FIRs in Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur.
The Courtroom had earlier pulled up the Delhi Police for failing to file its response to the bail pleas.
Subsequently, the Delhi Police filed a 389-page affidavit detailing why the accused should not be granted bail.
The Delhi Police claimed irrefutable documentary along with technical proof that pointed to a conspiracy for a “regime-change operation” and plans to incite nationwide riots on communal traces and kill non-Muslims.
In the midst of the listening to of the case on November 20, the Delhi Police suggested the very best court docket docket that the accused are anti-nationals who tried to overthrow the regime by violence.
When the matter was heard remaining on December 3, the very best court docket docket requested the six accused to furnish their eternal addresses to the court docket docket.
Dwell updates from in the mean time’s listening to proper right here.
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