The bail plea of former JNU student Umar Khalid and student activist Sharjeel Imam in a UAPA case related to the alleged larger conspiracy behind the communal riots in February 2020 will be heard by the Delhi High Court on November 25.
On Monday, the bail pleas of Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam, 'United Against Hate' founder Khalid Saifi, and other co-accused in the case were listed for a fresh hearing before a bench of Justices Navin Chawla and Shalinder Kaur, but the bench did not assemble.
Earlier, the cases were before a bench headed by Justice Suresh Kumar Kait, but the judge was recently transferred to the Madhya Pradesh High Court as its chief justice.
Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam, and several others have been booked under the anti-terror law Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and provisions of the Indian Penal Code for allegedly being the "masterminds" of the February 2020 riots, which had left 53 people dead and over 700 injured.
The violence had erupted during the protests against the CAA and NRC.
Umar Khalid, who was arrested by the Delhi Police in September 2020, has challenged a trial court order of May 28, which denied him bail in the case. Notice on his appeal was issued by the high court in July.
The pleas of Imam, Saifi and other accused were filed in 2022 and have been listed before different benches from time to time since then.
Imam, in his appeal filed in 2022, has assailed a trial court order of April 11, 2022 which refused to grant him bail. The police had arrested Imam in the present case on August 25, 2020.
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