Former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student Umar Khalid was granted interim bail for 7 days to attend his sister's wedding by a Delhi court on Monday.
Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat granted relief to Khalid from December 23 to 30. Khalid was booked under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and provisions of the Indian Penal Code for allegedly being a mastermind of the February 2020 riots, which had left 53 people dead and over 700 injured.
The violence had erupted during the protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the National Register of Citizens. Khalid was arrested by Delhi Police in September 2020. He has been granted bail for the period of one week from 23rd to 30th December. He has to surrender on December 30.
Earlier, the Delhi High Court had refused to grant bail to former JNU student Umar Khalid in a UAPA case related to the alleged conspiracy behind the riots here in February 2020.
"There is no merit in the bail appeal. Bail appeal is dismissed," said a bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul and Rajnish Bhatnagar. Khalid, arrested by Delhi Police in September 2020, sought bail on grounds that he neither had any “criminal role” in the violence in the city's north-east area nor any “conspiratorial connect” with any other accused in the case.
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