A Delhi court on May 28 rejected the bail application of former Jawaharlal Nehru University scholar Umar Khalid who was arrested in a larger conspiracy case pertaining to North East Delhi riots 2020. The Karkardooma court had denied bail to Mr Khalid first time in March 2022 following which he had approached the Delhi High Court which too denied any …
On March 24, a Sessions Court in Delhi denied bail to Umar Khalid as part of a set of cases that have commonly come to be known as “the Delhi riots cases”. The denial of bail to Mr. Khalid highlights an equally serious problem: the broken nature of India’s criminal justice system. Shorn of legalese, the UAPA prohibits a judge …
A Delhi court has dismissed an application by former JNU student leader Umar Khalid, arrested under the stringent anti-terror law Unlawful Activities Act, seeking permission to meet his family during his police custody. Mr Khalid is in police custody for 10 days, till September 24, in a case related to the large conspiracy in the communal violence in north east …