2020 North East Delhi Violence: A Delhi court on Wednesday (December 18) granted interim bail to Umar Khalid, a former student of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), in connection with a larger conspiracy case related to the 2020 North East Delhi Violence. The Karkardooma court has approved the bail for a period of seven days from 28 December to 3 January to attend the marriage functions of his cousin.
Umar Khalid had sought 10 days of interim bail to attend the wedding of his cousin brother and sister.
Khalid, arrested by the Delhi Police in September 2020, had sought bail on the grounds that he neither had any criminal role in the violence nor any “conspiratorial connect” with any other accused in the case. The Delhi Police had opposed Khalid’s bail plea in the high court, saying the speech delivered by him was “very calculated” and he brought up contentious issues like Babri Masjid, triple talaq, Kashmir, the alleged suppression of Muslims and the CAA and NRC.
