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The Supreme Court connected Wednesday (January 21, 2026) said mounting up of further proceedings courts volition marque the judicial strategy “robust” arsenic the accused volition not beryllium needed to travel to the apex tribunal for reliefs similar bail oregon expeditious proceeding successful transgression cases.
The apical tribunal connected January 6 had asked the Centre and the Delhi authorities to see mounting up a peculiar tribunal to behaviour a day-to-day proceedings successful a 2021 lawsuit probed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) related to the ISIS links of a person.
On Wednesday (January 21, 2026), a seat comprising Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M. Pancholi asked Additional Solicitor General Aishwarya Bhati, appearing for the Centre, astir the advancement made successful mounting up of a peculiar tribunal successful the nationalist capital.
“The thought is however bash you marque a robust mechanics that nary of them are required to travel to the courts? And that volition hap erstwhile further courts are acceptable up,” the CJI said.
The Bench asked the instrumentality serviceman to apprise it by February 10 of the improvement successful mounting up of a peculiar tribunal here. The substance volition beryllium present taken up connected that day.
The Bench was proceeding the bail plea of Md Heydaitullah, who allegedly utilized Telegram groups to propagate the ideology of the violent radical successful India and enlistee different persons.
The CJI earlier said that inordinate hold successful proceedings gives to morganatic submissions connected behalf of the accused that helium cannot beryllium kept successful custody for a longer play of time, that excessively without the trial.
The Bench had asked Ms. Bhati to apprise it wrong a week astir the mounting up of the peculiar tribunal present to behaviour a day-to-day proceedings successful the lawsuit successful which 125 witnesses are to beryllium examined.
In the ISIS-related case, the Delhi High Court had refused to assistance bail to Mr. Heydaitullah, an alleged subordinate of the panic outfit, successful the lawsuit related to radicalisation of youths utilizing cyberspace.
The accused had challenged a proceedings tribunal bid declining immoderate alleviation connected the crushed that specified relation oregon enactment to a violent organisation would not represent an offence nether the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA).
The High Court had rejected the contention, and said Heydaitullah, a qualified MBA postgraduate moving astatine an IT institution successful Gurugram, was not a “passive” protagonist arsenic worldly showed that helium advocated “Jihad successful bid to found Khilafat” adjacent done convulsive means.
“The appellant admittedly successful 2018 had taken an oath (Bayath) successful the sanction of Abu Bakr al Baghdadi and Abu al-Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi. Abu Bakr al Baghdadi is admittedly a well-known person of ISIS and arsenic per the chargesheet had declared enactment of ‘caliphate’ successful June 2014,” the High Court had said.
“ISIS had been declared to beryllium a violent organisation and judicial announcement tin beryllium taken of the information that the satellite astatine ample knows astir the activities of ISIS.. Appellant is an educated idiosyncratic and was good alert of the quality of activities of ISIS,” it added.
Dismissing the plea, the High Court said the barroom connected assistance of bail nether the UAPA was intelligibly applicable successful the case. Following an FIR registered successful 2021, the NIA arrested the accused connected October 22, 2022.
The prosecution alleged that helium disseminated the ISIS ideology done the cyber abstraction and dispersed hatred against the authorities by promoting enmity against Hindus connected societal media.
It was further alleged that helium had transferred funds for the origin of ISIS from his slope relationship and assorted materials, including the oath of allegiance, methods for mentation of explosive material, etc. were recovered from him during the investigation.
