A Delhi court has directed the Tihar Jail authorities to provide security to former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student Umar Khalid in the jail premises, after he was sent to 14-days judicial custody in connection with a case relating to the communal violence in northeast Delhi in February.

Khalid was arrested by the Crime Branch of the Delhi Police on October 1 and sent to three-day police custody. His police custody ended on October 4, following which he was remanded to judicial custody at Tihar jail.