Denied relief, Umar Khalid moved high court for interim bail

The petition, scheduled to be heard on Friday by a bench of justices Prathiba M Singh and Madhu Jain, challenges the trial court’s May 19 order refusing him 15 days’ interim bail to attend the Chehlum (40th day ceremony) of his deceased uncle and visit his mother, who is scheduled to undergo surgery.

In the impugned order, additional sessions judge Sameer Bajpai of the Karkardooma courts held that the grounds cited by Khalid for seeking interim bail were not reasonable.

Before deciding the plea on merits, the judge noted that Khalid and other co-accused in the case had previously been granted interim bail on multiple occasions and had never violated the imposed conditions. Even so, that did not warrant a similar decision from the court every time, and each application had to be decided independently, Bajpai said.