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 within the bigger 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 highest courtroom in opposition to the Delhi Excessive Courtroom’s September 2 order denying them bail. The highest courtroom had issued discover 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 individuals and injured tons of.
The current case pertains to allegations that the accused had hatched a bigger conspiracy to trigger a number of riots. The FIR on this case was registered by a Particular Cell of the Delhi Police underneath numerous provisions of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the UAPA.
A lot of the accused had been booked in a number of FIRs, resulting in a number of bail petitions earlier than totally different courts. Most have been in custody since 2020.
Khalid was arrested in September 2020 and charged with prison conspiracy, rioting, illegal meeting, in addition to a number of different offences underneath the Illegal Actions Prevention Act (UAPA).
He has been in jail since then.
The trial courtroom had first denied him bail in March 2022. He then approached the Excessive Courtroom, which additionally denied him aid in October 2022, prompting him to file an attraction earlier than the highest courtroom.
In Might 2023, the Supreme Courtroom sought the response of the Delhi Police within the matter. His plea earlier than the highest courtroom was then adjourned 14 occasions.
On February 14, 2024, he withdrew his bail plea from the Supreme Courtroom, citing a change in circumstances.
On Might 28, the trial courtroom rejected his second bail petition. An attraction in opposition to the identical was dismissed by the Delhi Excessive Courtroom on September 2, prompting the current plea earlier than the apex courtroom.
Imam too was booked in a number of FIRs throughout a number of States, largely underneath sedition and UAPA expenses.
Within the case registered over speeches he gave at Jamia Milia Islamia College and Aligarh Muslim College, he was granted bail by the Delhi Excessive Courtroom final yr. Within the sedition instances registered in Aligarh and Guwahati, he was granted bail by the Allahabad Excessive Courtroom in 2021 and the Gauhati Excessive Courtroom in 2020, respectively. He was additionally 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 shouldn’t be granted bail.
The Delhi Police claimed irrefutable documentary in addition to technical proof that pointed to a conspiracy for a “regime-change operation” and plans to incite nationwide riots on communal strains and kill non-Muslims.
Through the listening to of the case on November 20, the Delhi Police advised the highest courtroom that the accused are anti-nationals who tried to overthrow the regime by means of violence.
When the matter was heard on December 3, the highest courtroom requested the six accused to furnish their everlasting addresses to the courtroom.
The six accused concluded their arguments yesterday.
The Delhi Police will make their arguments immediately.
Dwell updates from immediately’s listening to right here.
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