Delhi Police on Saturday opposed the bail applications of Omar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam in the 2020 Delhi riots conspiracy case.
A Delhi court has rejected the bail pleas of student activists Omar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam in the 2020 Delhi riots conspiracy case. The order was approved by Additional Sessions Judge Sameer Bajpai of the Karkardooma Courts.
The Delhi Police on Saturday opposed the bail applications of Omar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam in the 2020 Delhi riots conspiracy case, arguing that there were no changes in circumstances and that both of them occupied a senior and significant role in the conspiracy, distinct from the rest of the co-accused, HT had reported earlier.
The applications were filed before Justice Sameer Bajpai of Karkardooma Courts in additional sessions by Special Public Prosecutor Madhukar Pandey. The court reserved its orders.
What did Omar Khaled and Sharheel Imam say about bail applications?
In their bail applications filed last month, both Khalid and Imam cited a change in circumstances, highlighting the May 18 ruling by a bench of Supreme Court Justices P V Nagaratna and Ujjal Bhuiyan while granting bail to Syed Iftikhar Andrabi, a resident of Jammu and Kashmir, in a narco-terrorism case being investigated by the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
The Supreme Court expressed “serious reservations” about the reasoning adopted earlier this year in the January 5 judgment, stating that it failed to properly apply the binding principles laid down by a larger three-judge bench in Union of India v. K. A. Najeeb (2021), which recognized that prolonged imprisonment and trial delays could override statutory restrictions on bail under Section 43D(5) of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA).
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