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No Relief : Supreme Court Rejects Bail Pleas Of Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam in the 2020 Delhi riots conspiracy case ; Five Others Though Get Reprive
There was a prima facie case against Khalid and Imam under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, a bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and N V Anjaria said. While the two will remain in jail, activists Gulfisha Fatima, Meeran Haider, Shifa Ur Rehman, Mohd. Saleem Khan and Shadab Ahmad have been given bail.
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The Supreme Court has refused bail to activists Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam in the 2020 Delhi riots conspiracy case but granted it to five others, citing ‘hierarchy of participation’ and saying all accused in the case do not stand on the same footing.
There was a prima facie case against Khalid and Imam under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, a bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and N V Anjaria said. While the two will remain in jail, activists Gulfisha Fatima, Meeran Haider, Shifa Ur Rehman, Mohd. Saleem Khan and Shadab Ahmad have been given bail.
According to media reports. Khalid and Imam can file fresh bail applications after the examination of protected witnesses or after one year from today, the court said.
The two stand on qualitatively different footing as compared to other accused, it said.
The prosecution prima facie disclosed ‘a central and formative role’ and ‘involvement in the level of planning, mobilisation and strategic direction extending beyond episodic and localised acts’, the bench said.
The February 2020 riots in northeast Delhi left 53 people dead and more than 700 injured.