SC defers bail plea hearing of Ex-JNU student Umar Khalid to Feb 1 in Delhi riots case

The accused, Khalid had approached the top court challenging an October 2022 Delhi High Court verdict that had denied bail to him.Khalid was arrested by the Delhi Police in September 2020 for his alleged role in connection with the communal violence in the national capital. Since then, he has been in jail. He had initially in the Delhi the High Court sought bail on grounds that he neither had any “criminal role” in the violence in the city’s North-East area nor any “conspiratorial connect” with any other accused in the case. The Delhi police had opposed the bail plea of Khalid in the HC.He had approached the High Court challenging the dismissal of his bail application by the trial court in March 2022.The police also arrested Sharjeel Imam, activist Khalid Saifi, JNU students Natasha Narwal and Devangana Kalita, Jamia Coordination Committee members Safoora Zargar, former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain and several others under the stringent law in the case.According to the prosecution, the violence had erupted following protests against the CAA and NRC. The protests had left 53 people dead and over 700 injured.Khalid was charge-sheeted in the case, along with other accused persons in the case.



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