Let Umar Khalid step out of jail cell, court tells jail authorities

New Delhi, Oct 24: A Delhi court has directed the Tihar jail authorities to let former Jawaharlal Nehru student Umar Khalid step out of his jail cell.

The court termed as bizarre the submission by the jail authorities that the cell in which former JNU student Umar Khalid was kept was located at a place from where he could see more than half of the ward.

Khalid had to the court that he is not being allowed to step out of his cell or meet anyone. It feels like solitary confinement, he also said.