A Delhi court had reserved its verdict on the bail plea of Jawaharlal Nehru University scholar Umar Khalid in a Delhi Riots case under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act provisions. Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat has fixed March 14 for pronouncement of the order.
Senior Advocate Trideep Pais said, "UAPA, POTA, PMLA are distrust of judiciary. These are enacted so that your (judiciary) hands are tied. This is a joke. No accused should be held in this FIR. This is a cooked-up FIR."
A Delhi Court on Thursday granted bail to former JNU student Umar Khalid in the case relating to the violence that broke out in the Khajuri Khas area of North East district of national capital and said "chargesheeting him in this case on the basis of such an insignificant material is unwarranted."
A Delhi Court on Monday directed that a copy of the chargesheet in the JNU Sedition case be supplied to ex JNU Students Union President Kanhaiya Kumar and other accused persons.
A Delhi court on Tuesday expressed displeasure at the media coverage in the case relating to the larger conspiracy that led to the violence and riots that broke out in North-East Delhi last year.
The judge while passing the said orders said, "It is indubitably true that every accused has the fundamental right to free and fair investigation as also trial."
In its Chargesheet, the Delhi Police named Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam, Faizan Khan, Danish, Parvez, Ilyas, Khalid Saifi, Ishrat Jahan, Tahir Hussain, Meeran Haider, Pinjda Tod activists Gulfisha Fatima, Safoora Zargar, Natasha Narwal and Devangana Kalita, as accused of 'criminal conspiracy'.