Northeast Delhi violence: HC to pronounce order on Umar Khalid's bail plea today

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday will pronounce its order on the bail plea of Umar Khalid who is in custody in the larger conspiracy case of Northeast Delhi riotsSpecial division bench of justices Sidharth Mridul and Rajanish Bhatnagar will be pronouncing an order on the bail plea former JNU student leader The order was reserved on September 9Khalid is an accused in a larger Conspiracy related to the Northeast Delhi riots of February 2020 He was booked under the stringent antiterror law UAPA He was arrested on September 13 2020 He has been in custody since thenKhalid had challenged the trial court order of March 24 2020 denying him bail in the matterSenior advocate Tridip Pais had submitted that there was no meeting of minds and agreement between two or more persons to do a criminal act which is an essential element of criminal conspiracy Independent acts of different individuals do not amount to conspiracyAlso Read Infant mauled by dog in Noida society diesPais also submitted that the speech of one coaccused and mine had reference to Triple Talaq the Kashmir issue and others But at the heart of it was the opposition to CAA This is the component Is the opposition to the law on Triple Talaq CAA or the abrogation of Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir illegal in itself There are several even former judges who expressed their views against these lawsIn relation to Amaravatis speech he submitted that there was not a single incident of violence after it There is no whisper that our speech or act led to any violence He also said advocating a chakka jaam to raise an issue does not make my act criminalThe senior advocate had submitted that his client has been in custody for the last 2 years on the basis of baseless statements Even after filing 4 charge sheets the investigation is still going onOn the other hand Delhi police had submitted Umar Khalid had left Delhi on February 23 before the violence started the next day so that no one could doubt himEarlier Amit Prasad had argued that Umar Khalid in his speech at Amravati had asked the people to be on road for chakka jaam on February 24 2020 He had said that it was to show Trump that CAA was a dangerous Act for MuslimsSenior Advocate Tridip Pais argued that there is no material no basis of allegations in the charge sheet It is based on hearsayDuring the argument on May 23 2022 he had argued that Sharjeel Imam had criticized a secular movement against CAA and Khalid did not agree with itPais had said I am Umar Khalid being lumped with a person who calls for a deeply communal protest against CAA There is no ideological meeting of mindsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever