Delhi Police urge HC to take ‘very strict view’ of 2020 riots case against Umar Khalid, others
The riots were a ‘conspiracy’ that was ‘clinical, pathological’ and planned ‘by forces inimical to India’, it said.
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The Delhi Police on Tuesday urged the Delhi High Court to take a “very strict view” on bail applications of activists Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam and six others accused in the 2020 riots in the national capital, Bar and Bench reported.
Additional Solicitor General Chetan Sharma also told a Division Bench of Justice Navin Chawla and Justice Shalinder Kaur that the riots were a “conspiracy” that was “clinical, pathological” and planned “by forces inimical to India”.
Sharma cited the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act to oppose bail to the persons accused in the case.
The court was hearing the bail petitions filed by activists Khalid, Imam, Mohd. Saleem Khan, Shifa ur Rehman, Shadab Ahmed, Athar Khan, Khalid Saifi and Gulfisha Fatima, who have been in jail for over four years.
They were booked for offences under the Indian Penal Code, Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act, Arms Act and the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act in connection with the clashes that broke 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 police have claimed that the violence was part of a larger conspiracy to defame Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s...
