2/25/2023 0 Comments The witness discarded panels![]() ![]() “The manner in which the administration initially rejected permission for the appellant’s speech and thereafter how the speech came to be delivered clandestinely on that very day is something which gives credibility to the accusation of the prosecution,” the court said. The bench noted that according to the prosecution, Trump’s arrival “heralded the riots” in the national capital. The court said that on February 17, 2020, Khalid delivered a speech at Maharashtra’s Amravati city, during which he made a reference to the arrival of Donald Trump, who was the president of the United States at the time, in India. The court noted that he was a member of a WhatsApp group comprising Muslim students of the Jawaharlal Nehru University, and that he took part in protest meets at Jantar Mantar, Shaheen Bagh, Seelampur and Jaffrabad areas of Delhi. On Tuesday, a bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul and Rajnish Bhatnagar said that Khalid’s name found recurring mention from the “beginning of the conspiracy” till the riots. The police had arrested several activists and students, including Khalid, based on these conspiracy charges. They also claimed the protestors had secessionist motives and were using “the facade of civil disobedience” to destabilise the government. 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 against the amended Citizenship Act. The case pertains to clashed that had broken out February 23 and February 26, 2020, between supporters of the Citizenship Amendment Act and those opposing it in North East Delhi, leaving 53 dead and hundreds injured. The High Court said that the allegations against Khalid were prima facie true and so Section 43D(5) of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act prevents granting him bail. “We don’t find any merit in bail appeal, appeal is dismissed,” Justice Siddharth Mridul said, while dictating the order. The Delhi High Court on Tuesday denied bail to activist Umar Khalid in a case pertaining to an alleged larger conspiracy behind the February 2020 riots in the national capital. ![]()
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