Umar Khalid is in prison on the basis of a hearsay witness statement, says his lawyer

The counsel said that the statement had been recorded a month before the activist was arrested in connection to a 2020 Delhi violence case.

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· Yesterday · 08:34 pm

Delhi violence: High Court seeks police response on Mohammed Saleem Khan’s bail plea

A special court in March had rejected Khan’s bail plea in a case about a conspiracy to defame the government.

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· May 23, 2022 · 07:07 pm

Delhi violence: Activist Umar Khalid says several incidents attributed to him are not acts of terror

Khalid has been accused of making provocative speeches at two anti-CAA sites and hatching a conspiracy to incite riots.

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· May 23, 2022 · 07:04 pm

2020 Delhi riots: Former AAP leader Tahir Hussain charged with rioting, criminal conspiracy

Hussain was an active rioter during the incident, the court said.

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· May 06, 2022 · 09:39 pm

Delhi HC asks activist Sharjeel Imam to submit FIR, chargesheet filed against him in Aligarh

Imam’s lawyer said the Allahabad High Court had granted the activist bail after hearing his alleged inflammatory speech made at the Aligarh Muslim University.

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· May 06, 2022 · 05:05 pm

Is it proper to use the word ‘jumla’ against prime minister, Delhi HC asks Umar Khalid’s lawyer

The activist used the word in a speech which the Delhi Police have alleged incited riots in the city in February 2020.

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· Apr 28, 2022 · 09:32 am

Narratives created by Umar Khalid cannot be looked into as defence for bail plea, says Delhi police

The police made the argument while replying to the activist’s bail petition in a case related to North East Delhi riots in 2020.

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· Apr 27, 2022 · 01:58 pm

Umar Khalid’s speech is ‘obnoxious and unacceptable’, says Delhi HC as it hears his bail plea

The acitivist has been charged with conspiring to incite riots in Delhi in February 2020, based on a speech he had made in Amravati.

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· Apr 22, 2022 · 04:10 pm

Activist Sharjeel Imam denied bail in Delhi riots larger conspiracy case

The police claim that the violence was part of a larger conspiracy to defame the Modi government and was planned by those who had organised the CAA protests.

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· Apr 11, 2022 · 10:23 pm

Delhi violence: Jamia Milia Islamia student Meeran Haider denied bail in UAPA case

Haider, a Rashtriya Janata Dal youth wing leader, has been named in a chargesheet pertaining to an alleged conspiracy to incite the riots.

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· Apr 05, 2022 · 04:52 pm

Hate speech: If remarks are made with a smile, there is no criminality, says Delhi High Court

CPM leaders have challenged a trial court order rejecting a plea for filing FIRs against Anurag Thakur and Parvesh Verma for allegedly making hate speeches.

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· Mar 26, 2022 · 01:35 pm

Denying bail to Umar Khalid is a ‘big blow’ to right to peaceful protest, says Amnesty India

The activist’s bail plea was rejected in a case alleging larger conspiracy into the violence that broke out in Delhi in February 2020.

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· Mar 25, 2022 · 07:11 pm