Delhi riots: Umar Khalid says Delhi Police yet to recover physical evidence against him – India Legal

Former JNU pupil chief Umar Khalid has apprised the Delhi Excessive Courtroom that the Delhi Police was but to get well any bodily proof to point out his involvement within the bigger conspiracy resulting in riots in NorthEast Delhi in February 2020.

Khalid was arrested on September 13, 2020 by Delhi Police below the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act.

Showing earlier than the Division Bench of Justice Navin Chawla and Justice Shalinder Kaur, Senior Advocate Trideep Pais, representing Khalid, submitted that Delhi Police didn’t degree any allegations in opposition to Khalid concerning procurement, receipt, or elevating of funds, or his involvement in any terrorist exercise associated to his function in Delhi riots.

He mentioned that whereas there have been many different individuals who allegedly attended the conspiracy assembly, solely him and Sharjeel Imam have been made an accused within the case.

The counsel additional contended that the premise of constructing this individual or that individual an accused was not even recognized.

The mentioned the only overt act on Khalid’s half was a speech given by the accused in February 2020 at Amravati, Maharashtra, in opposition to the Citizenship Modification Act.

Khalid solely urged individuals to protest in opposition to CAA. There was no name for violence. The speech invoked Gandhian ideas of non-violence and was given 1,000 miles away from town. There was completely no resonance of that in Delhi, he added.

He additional argued that the prosecution didn’t hassle to take heed to all the speech however as an alternative relied upon a selective clip. There was no allegation of terrorist act or any violent act on Khalid’s half.

The Excessive Courtroom will proceed the listening to of the case on December 12, when Delhi Police is prone to make submissions opposing the bail plea.

In October 2022, a Coordinate Bench headed by Justice Siddharth Mridul rejected the bail petition of Umar Khalid. The previous pupil of the Jawaharlal Nehru College (JNU) the moved the Supreme Courtroom however later withdrew his SLP.

In March this 12 months, Extra Periods Decide Amitabh Rawat of Karkardooma Courtroom rejected his bail plea.

FIR 59 of 2020 was registered by the Particular Cell of Delhi Police below varied offences below the Indian Penal Code, 1860 and the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act, 1967.

The accused within the case embrace Umar Khalid, Tahir Hussain, Khalid Saifi, Sharjeel Imam, Meeran Haider, Shifa-Ur-Rehman, Gulfisha Fatima, Shadab Ahmed, Asif Iqbal Tanha, Saleem Malik, Tasleem Ahmed, Faizan Khan, Athar Khan, Mohd Saleem Khan, Safoora Zargar and Natasha Narwal.