NEW DELHI — A Delhi Court on Wednesday granted interim bail to former JNU scholar Umar Khalid in the UAPA case alleging a larger conspiracy related to the 2020 North-East Delhi riots.
Additional Sessions Judge Sameer Bajpai of Karkardooma Courts granted interim bail for 7 days to Khalid for attending a wedding in the family.
The interim bail conditions are that Khalid shall not contact any witness and any person in connection with the case, Live Law reported.
The Court has also directed Khalid to not use social media during the interim bail period.
Other conditions are:
– He shall only meet his family members, relatives and friends
– He shall remain at his home or at the places where the ceremonies of marriage will take place.
Umar Khalid has to surrender himself in the evening of January 03, 2025 before the concerned Jail Superintendent.
Umar Khalid was denied bail in October 2022 by the Delhi High Court. He then approached the Supreme Court but later withdrew his SLP. A second regular bail plea was filed by him in the trial court which was rejected earlier this year.
Khalid’s appeal challenging the rejection of his second regular bail plea is pending before the Delhi High Court.
FIR 59 of 2020 was registered by Delhi Police’s Special Cell under various offences under the Indian Penal Code, 1860 and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967.
The accused in the case are Tahir Hussain, Umar Khalid, Khalid Saifi, Isharat Jahan, Meeran Haider, Gulfisha Fatima, Shifa-Ur-Rehman, Asif Iqbal Tanha, Shadab Ahmed, Tasleem Ahmed, Saleem Malik, Mohd. Saleem Khan, Athar Khan, Safoora Zargar, Sharjeel Imam, Faizan Khan and Natasha Narwal.
