Delhi riots case hearing LIVE: Supreme Court to hear pleas of Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam and others in 2020 Delhi riots cases

Whether it was penning a code for his adjacent rally oregon preparing pamphlets for an upcoming protest, Umar Khalid was ever restless to bash it each systematically and methodically. He astir apt ne'er imagined that beingness would marque him dilatory down successful the astir unprecedented way, by keeping him down bars for years, accidental his friends. 

A erstwhile pupil of modern past astatine Jawaharlal Nehru University successful Delhi, Mr. Khalid was booked by constabulary for being 1 of the cardinal conspirators successful the north-east Delhi riots that broke retired successful February 2020, amid countrywide protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). The riots had near 53 radical dormant and hundreds displaced. Arrested successful September 2020, Mr. Khalid has been languishing wrong the maximum information Tihar Jail since then. 

The Delhi Police connected Thursday (October 30, 2025) argued successful the Supreme Court that former JNU pupil person Umar Khalid and his co-accused conspired to usage “sponsored” anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protests arsenic a camouflage and a “radicalising catalyst” to technologist nation-wide communal riots to execute the last extremity of a authorities change.

The constabulary said Khalid, who has been down bars for 5 years without bail, and others similar Sharjeel Imam, Meeran Haider, Shifa Ur Rahman, Mohd. Saleem Khan and Gulfisha Fatima had conspired to instigate communal riots and equipped rebellion to coincide with the sojourn of U.S. President Donald Trump to India. They wanted to drawback the attraction of the planetary media and represent CAA arsenic a pogrom against the Muslim assemblage here, the constabulary affidavit said.

Activists Umar Khalid, Gulfisha Fatima and Sharjeel Imam told the Supreme Court connected Friday (October 31, 2025) that they had been successful jailhouse for implicit five years without immoderate grounds to amusement their involvement successful the February 2020 Delhi riots, and said the continued incarceration amounted to “punishment without trial”. 

A Bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and N.V. Anjaria was proceeding the bail pleas of the 3 activists, on with Meeran Haider and Shifa-ur-Rehman, successful the larger conspiracy lawsuit registered nether the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 (UAPA).