Delhi High Court to Hear Bail Pleas of Umar Khalid Sharjeel Imam
The Delhi High Court is gonna hear bail pleas for student activists like Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam January 7, 2025 these guys are accused under UAPA and IPC for supposedly masterminding the 2020 riots. Justices Navin Chawla and Shalinder Kaur will be looking at the case and Delhi Police will be giving their side of the story. They’re saying these activists planned the violence that killed 53 people and injured over 700.
These riots happened during big protests against the CAA and NRC. The activists are asking for bail because they have been locked up for a long time and other people who were also accused have been granted bail. Some of them including Imam and Gulfisha Fatima applied for bail back in 2022. Different judges have been hearing this case over time.
Umar Khalid is trying for bail again he got turned down in October 2022. The hearing got pushed back from December 20 so the prosecution could give their arguments. Delhi Police picked up all the accused at different times after the violence.