Delhi riots case hearing LIVE: Supreme Court to hear bail pleas of Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam

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The Supreme Court is scheduled 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.

Delhi High Court connected September 2 denied bail to 9 people, including Mr. Khalid and Mr. Imam, saying “conspiratorial” unit nether the garb of demonstrations oregon protests by citizens could not beryllium allowed.

Mr. Khalid, Mr. 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.

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'No carnal grounds against me’, Umar Khalid tells court
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.
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