SC to hear bail pleas of 2020 Delhi riots student leaders today

A bench of justices Aravind Kumar and NV Anjaria will take up the petitions challenging the DelhiDelhiDelhi High Court September 2 verdict that rejected their bail pleas.

The high court bench of justices Navin Chawla and Shalinder Kaur (since retired) had dismissed the pleas of nine accused, holding that their roles in the conspiracy appeared “prima facie grave.”

The seven others whose pleas were rejected by the high court include student activist Gulfisha Fatima, United Against Hate founder Khalid Saifi, Athar Khan, Mohd Saleem, Shifa-ur-Rehman, Meeran Haider, and Shadab Ahmed, relying on the roles assigned to them by investigators in what was described as a coordinated conspiracy culminating in the riots. Of these, Fatima and Haider have also appealed in the top court, with their petitions listed before the same bench.