Umar Khalid moves Supreme Court after being denied bail in Delhi riots case

Activist Umar Khalid has moved the Supreme Court against a Delhi High Court order rejecting his bail petition in a case in which he has been accused of being part of a “larger conspiracy” linked to the 2020 Delhi riots, Live Law reported on Wednesday.

On September 2, a High Court bench of Justices Navin Chawla and Shalinder Kaur dismissed the bail petitions of Khalid, Gulfisha Fatima, Sharjeel Imam, Mohd Saleem Khan, Shifa Ur Rehman, Athar Khan, Meeran Haider and Abdul Khalid Saifi.

Another division bench of Justices Subramonium Prasad and Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar rejected the bail petition of another accused person, Tasleem Ahmed.