Delhi riots 2020: High Court to hear Umar Khalid's bail plea
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New Delhi: In the UAPA case of alleged conspiracy behind the riots in Delhi on February 2020 against former JNU student Umar Khalid, the Delhi High Court will hear bail plea on Monday, the 22nd, PTI reported.
Khalid's plea was made after a trial court refused to grant him bail, and the plea will be heard by the bench of Justices Pratibha M Singh and Amit Sharma.
Khalid, Sharjeel Imam, and several others have been booked under the anti-terror law Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and provisions of the Indian Penal Code for allegedly being the "masterminds" of the February 2020 riots, which had left 53 people dead and over 700 injured.
The violence had erupted during the protests against CAA and NRC.
Khalid was arrested by Delhi Police in September 2020.
On May 28, the trial court rejected Khalid's plea seeking regular bail for the second time, saying its previous order dismissing his first bail application had attained finality.
"When the Delhi High Court has already dismissed the criminal appeal of the applicant (Khalid) vide order dated October 18, 2022, and thereafter, the applicant approached the Supreme Court and withdrew his petition, the order of this court as passed on March 24, 2022 (on the first bail plea), has attained finality and now, in no stretch of imagination this court can make analysis of the facts of the case as desired by the applicant and consider the relief as prayed by him," the trial court had said.
On October 18, 2022, the high court upheld the dismissal of the first bail plea and said the city police's allegations against him were prima facie true.