2020 Delhi riots case: The listening to of bail pleas of activists Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam, Gulfisha Fatima and Meeran Haider was deferred by the Supreme Court docket from Friday to September 22.
A bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and Manmohan deferred the pleas.
The accused have denied all of the allegations towards them. They’ve been in jail since 2020.
On September 2, the Delhi Excessive Court docket denied bail to the 9 individuals, together with Khalid and Imam, saying “conspiratorial” violence beneath the garb of demonstrations or protests by residents couldn’t be allowed.
In addition to Umar Khalid and Imam, those that confronted bail rejection are Fatima, Haider, Mohd Saleem Khan, Shifa Ur Rehman, Athar Khan, Abdul Khalid Saifi and Shadab Ahmed.
What did the Excessive Court docket say?
The Structure affords residents the suitable to protest and perform demonstrations or agitations, offered they’re orderly, peaceable and with out arms, and such actions have to be throughout the bounds of legislation.
Whereas the excessive court docket stated the suitable to take part in peaceable protests and to make speeches in public conferences was stated to have been protected beneath Article 19(1)(a), and could not be blatantly curtailed, it noticed the suitable was “not absolute” and “topic to affordable restrictions”.
What did the bail rejection order say?
— If the train of an unfettered proper to protest had been permitted, it will injury the constitutional framework and impinge upon the legislation and order state of affairs within the nation.
What are the fees towards Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam?
Khalid, Imam and different accused within the case had been booked beneath the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and provisions of the erstwhile Indian Penal Code for allegedly being the ‘masterminds’ of the February 2020 riots.
How many individuals died within the riots?
The riots left 53 individuals lifeless and over 700 injured.
The violence erupted in the course of the protests towards the Citizenship (Modification) Act (CAA) and the Nationwide Register of Residents (NRC).
