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Justice Rajnish Bhatnagar of Delhi High Court issued notice and placed it for hearing on February 11, 2021

All four have since received bail.

Khalid's legal counsel also reiterated that the chargesheet in the case was born out of the investigating officer's "fertile imagination" and that Khalid should not have been made an accused in the case in the first place.

Despite calling the evidence ‘sketchy’, the judge denied bail to the accused and surprisingly quoted Swami Vivekananda and John Milton to buttress his argument.

Case pertains to alleged charges of rioting and damage to public property besides others, during the anti-CAA protests in December, 2019.

The court noted that evidence in support of the allegations that the rioters got instigated by Sharjeel Imam's speech and thereafter indulged in the acts of rioting, mischief, attacking the police party, was scanty and sketchy.

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Share This - x A Delhi Court on Thursday granted bail to Umar Khalid in connection with a Delhi Riots case concerning Khajuri Khas FIR (FIR no.101/2020) after observing that he cannot be permitted to remain behind bars on the basis of sketchy material against him. Noting that the investigation in the case was complete and chargesheet had also been filed, Additional Sessions Judge Vinod Yadav granted bail after observing that he " cannot be made to incarcerate in jail for infinity merely on a...