Umar Khalid, a former scholar chief of JNU, has been granted interim bail to attend his cousin’s wedding ceremony features. The Karkardooma court docket accepted the bail for a interval of seven days for this goal.
Khalid is at the moment in judicial custody in reference to a bigger conspiracy case associated to the 2020 North East Delhi violence. The court docket granted interim bail to him from December 28 to January 3.
The Delhi Excessive Court docket is presently reviewing the common bail functions of former JNU scholar Umar Khalid and activist Sharjeel Imam in a UAPA case in regards to the alleged bigger conspiracy behind the communal riots in Delhi in February 2020.
The Delhi Police Particular Cell arrested Khalid on September 14, 2020, underneath the UAPA for his alleged involvement within the case.
Earlier, whereas rejecting his bail plea, the trial court docket acknowledged: “The Excessive Court docket analysed the case in opposition to the applicant and concluded that the allegations in opposition to the applicant are prima facie true, and that the embargo created by Part 43D(5) of UAPA squarely applies in opposition to the applicant. Therefore, the applicant doesn’t deserve bail.
It’s clear that the Hon’ble Excessive Court docket has meticulously thought-about the applicant’s position and declined the reduction sought by him,” the particular choose noticed within the order handed on Might 28, 2024.
The court docket additional famous that because the Excessive Court docket had already dismissed the applicant’s felony enchantment on October 18, 2022, and the applicant subsequently withdrew his petition earlier than the Supreme Court docket, the order of this court docket dated March 24, 2022, has attained finality.
Due to this fact, the court docket can not reassess the information of the case or grant the reduction requested by the applicant.
The trial court docket was addressing the second common bail utility filed on behalf of Umar Khalid, who’s accused within the UAPA case associated to the bigger conspiracy behind the 2020 Delhi riots. Khalid, arrested in September 2020, has been in custody since then. He sought common bail underneath Part 437 of the Code of Felony Process, 1973, learn with Part 43D(5) of the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act, 1967.
