1 hour ago
1
Activists Sharjeel Imam and Umar Khalid person moved caller bail applications earlier a Delhi tribunal successful the larger conspiracy lawsuit related to the 2020 northeast Delhi riots.
The applications argued that determination has been nary important advancement successful the proceedings contempt the Supreme Court dismissing the earlier plea implicit six months ago.
The caller pleas were filed earlier Additional Sessions Judge Sumedh Saini, who sought a effect from the Delhi Police connected Friday (June 12, 2026) and listed the substance for proceeding connected July 4.
In his plea, Mr. Imam said helium has remained successful custody for the past six years and that determination person been nary important developments successful the lawsuit pursuing the Supreme Court's January 5 verdict rejecting his bail plea.
The apex tribunal successful January refused bail to Mr. Khalid and Mr. Imam successful the 2020 Delhi riots larger conspiracy case, portion granting alleviation to the 5 different accused.
A Bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and N V Anjaria past said that determination was a prima facie lawsuit against Khalid and Imam nether the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), and observed that each the accused successful the lawsuit did not basal connected the aforesaid footing successful presumption of the "hierarchy of participation".
Process arsenic punishment: On the Umar Khalid case
It granted bail to activists Gulfisha Fatima, Meeran Haider, Shifa Ur Rehman, Mohd Saleem Khan and Shadab Ahmad.
Mr. Khalid, Mr. Imam and respective others were booked nether the UAPA and provisions of the IPC connected allegations that they were the "masterminds" down the February 2020 riots successful northeast Delhi.
The violence, which broke retired amid protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) and the projected National Register of Citizens (NRC), had near 53 radical dormant and implicit 700 injured.
The accused had approached the Supreme Court challenging a September 2 Delhi High Court bid denying them bail successful the conspiracy case.
