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The Supreme Court is slated to perceive connected Monday (October 27, 2025) bail pleas of activists Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam, Gulfisha Fatima and Meeran Haider successful the UAPA lawsuit related to the alleged conspiracy down the February 2020 riots successful Delhi.
A Bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and N.V. Anjaria is apt to perceive the matter. The apical tribunal connected September 22 had issued announcement to the Delhi Police and sought its response.
The activists person moved the apex tribunal challenging the Delhi High Court bid passed connected September 2.
The High Court denied bail to 9 people, including Khalid and Imam, saying "conspiratorial" unit nether the garb of demonstrations oregon protests by citizens could not beryllium allowed.
Besides Khalid and Imam, those who faced bail rejection are Fatima, Haider, Mohd Saleem Khan, Shifa Ur Rehman, Athar Khan, Abdul Khalid Saifi and Shadab Ahmed.
The bail plea of different accused, Tasleem Ahmed, was rejected by a antithetic precocious tribunal seat connected September 2.
The High Court said the Constitution affords citizens the close to protestation and transportation retired demonstrations oregon agitations, provided they are orderly, peaceful and without arms, and specified actions indispensable beryllium wrong the bounds of law.
While the High Court said the close to enactment successful peaceful protests and to marque speeches successful nationalist meetings was said to person been protected nether Article 19(1)(a), and couldn't beryllium blatantly curtailed, it observed the close was "not absolute" and "subject to tenable restrictions".
"If the workout of an unfettered close to protestation were permitted, it would harm the law model and impinge upon the instrumentality and bid concern successful the country," the bail rejection bid said.
Khalid, Imam and the remainder of the accused persons were booked nether the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and provisions of the erstwhile IPC for allegedly being the "masterminds" of the February 2020 riots, which near 53 radical dormant and implicit 700 injured.
The unit erupted during the protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the National Register of Citizens.
The accused, who person denied each the allegations against them, person been successful jailhouse since 2020 and had moved the High Court aft a proceedings tribunal rejected their bail pleas.
