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The Delhi constabulary connected Wednesday (January 28, 2026) told a metropolis tribunal that accusations against erstwhile Aam Aadmi Party councillor Tahir Hussain, Salim Malik and Athar Khan regarding their engagement successful the “larger conspiracy” down the 2020 Delhi riots were prima facie valid.
The communal unit successful north-east Delhi successful February 2020 near implicit 50 dormant and respective injured.
The constabulary made the submission earlier Additional Sessions Judge Sameer Bajpai of the Karkardooma Courts, which was proceeding bail pleas of the 3 accused who sought merchandise from jailhouse connected grounds of parity aft the Supreme Court granted bail to 5 different accused successful the aforesaid lawsuit earlier this month.
The constabulary opposed the bail applications citing the denial of alleviation to the accused persons successful the past by aggregate courts.
The tribunal could pronounce the bail bid connected Thursday (January 29, 2026).
This pertains to the lawsuit registered by Delhi Police Special Cell successful the alleged larger conspiracy down the riots, successful which 18 radical person been booked nether the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, among different charges. These see Umar Khalid, Khalid Saifi, Ishrat Jahan, Meeran Haider, Gulfisha Fatima, Shifa-Ur-Rehman, Asif Iqbal Tanha, Shadab Ahmed, Tasleem Ahmed, Saleem Malik, Mohd. Saleem Khan, Athar Khan, Safoora Zargar, Sharjeel Imam, Faizan Khan and Natasha Narwal.
On January 5, the Supreme Court granted bail to Ms. Fatima, Mr. Haider, Mr. Rehman, Mr. Khan and Mr. Shadab Ahmad portion denying alleviation to pupil activists Mr. Khalid and Mr. Imam, stating that each the accused successful the lawsuit did not basal connected the aforesaid footing.
Of the 18 accused, 7 are inactive successful prison.
