Incarcerated former student of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Umar Khalid, was granted interim bail by a Delhi court on Thursday to attend his sister’s wedding.
Additional Sessions Judge, Sameer Bajpai, granted interim relief to Khalid from December 16 to 29, and directed him to furnish a personal bond of ₹20,000 and two sureties of like amount.
"Considering the fact that the marriage is of the real sister of the applicant, the application is allowed and the applicant is granted interim bail from 16.12.2025 to 29.12.2025 on furnishing of personal bond of ₹20,000 with two sureties of the like amount subject to the following conditions," the court said.
Khalid was arrested in September 2020 and charged with criminal conspiracy, rioting, unlawful assembly, as well as several other offences under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA). He is lodged in Tihar jail for five years now.
“During the interim bail period, the applicant (Khalid) shall not use the social media,” the court said, directing him to “only meet his family members, relatives and friends”.
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Other conditions include the accused to “remain at his home or at the places where the ceremonies of marriage as mentioned by him will take place”, debarring him from contacting any witness and providing his mobile phone number to the investigating officer.
The court directed Khalid to surrender before the prison authorities on the evening of December 29.
The accused was last year granted an interim bail of seven days to attend another wedding, before which he was granted bail in 2022.
While Senior Advocate Trideep Pais with advocate Sanya Kumar appeared for Umar Khalid, Special Public Prosecutors (SPPs) Amit Prasad, Madhukar Pandey and Anirudh Mishra with advocates Ayodhya Prasad and Harshil Jain represented the Delhi Police.
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