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Former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student Umar Khalid told a Delhi tribunal connected Friday (October 17, 2025) that determination is “no carnal evidence” linking him to the alleged larger conspiracy down the 2020 north-east Delhi riots.
Mr. Khalid said that the police’s complaint expanse relies solely connected statements recorded months aft the incident. The submissions were made earlier Additional Sessions Judge Sameer Bajpai astatine the Karkardooma Courts, wherever proceedings person reached the signifier of framing charges against the accused persons successful the case. The communal unit that erupted successful February 2020 claimed 53 lives and near hundreds displaced.
Opposing the framing of charges, elder advocator Trideep Pais, representing Mr. Khalid claimed that the constabulary picked up anyone astir 11 months aft the incidental and coerced them into making statements. He asserted that the prosecution’s lawsuit is built wholly connected specified statements, with nary carnal grounds to backmost them up.
In erstwhile hearings, Mr. Khalid, who has been successful jail for implicit 5 years, maintained that helium was “singled out” by the police, portion others with “bigger roles” were not charged. He has besides claimed that the constabulary “fabricated evidence” to implicate him.
Alongside Mr. Khalid, respective others, including Tahir Hussain, 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, person been booked nether the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and different charges successful transportation with the alleged larger conspiracy.
