Activist Umar Khalid granted one-week interim bail to attend cousin’s wedding
He is scheduled to be released on December 28 and will need to surrender on January 3.
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A Delhi court on Wednesday granted interim bail for a week to activist Umar Khalid in the larger conspiracy case related to the 2020 Delhi riots, Bar and Bench reported.
Karkardooma court judge Sameer Bajpai granted Khalid relief from December 28 to January 3, to attend his cousin's wedding.
Khalid was arrested by the Delhi Police on September 13, 2020. He was granted a similar relief in December 2022 to attend his sister’s wedding.
The activist has been booked under an Unlawful Activities Prevention Act case pertaining to clashes that had broken out between February 23 and February 26, 2020, among supporters of the Citizenship Amendment Act and those opposing it in North East Delhi. The violence had left 53 dead and hundreds injured. Most of those killed were Muslims.
The Delhi Police claim the violence was part of a larger conspiracy to defame Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government and was hatched by those who organised the protests, including Khalid, against the amended Citizenship Act.
They also claim the protestors had secessionist motives and were using “the facade of civil disobedience” to destabilise the government. The police had arrested several activists and students, including Khalid, based on these conspiracy charges.
On Wednesday, Khalid was directed to furnish a Rs 20,000 personal bond and two sureties of the same amount. He has been...
