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Activist’s lawyer Pais had argued that police had relied on truncated videos of his Feb 17, 2020, speech in Amravati, and chargesheet was a fabrication

Khalid and several others have been booked under the anti-terror law UAPA in the case for being the masterminds of the February 2020 violence

Umar Khalid, an accused in the bigger conspiracy case involving the northeast Delhi riots, had his bail application refused by a Delhi court on Thursday.

Umar Khalids bail plea rejected in Delhi riots conspiracy case - Opposing the bail plea, Special Public Prosecutor Amit Prasad argued on the relevance of the speech given by Umar Khalid in Amravati in February 2020.

The JNU scholar and political activist has been in jail since September, 2020.

Other headlines: Calcutta High Court reserved its verdict on the violence in Birbhum, and Umar Khalid was denied bail in a Delhi violence case.

A Delhi Court on Thursday dismissed the bail plea of Umar Khalid, an accused in the northeast Delhi violence larger conspiracy case. Umar Khalid’s Bail Order in Delhi Riots Case Dismissed By Court.

A Delhi court on Thursday dismissed the bail application of Umar Khalid observing that any thesis or research done by any accused can not be a ground for assessing mens rea or his bent of mind

Khalid's bent of mind seen from his doctoral thesis on Welfare aspects of Adivasis of Jharkhand was stated to be not relevant at stage of bail

Khalid and several others, have been booked under the anti-terror law UAPA in the case for being the "masterminds" of the February 2020 riots, which had left 53 people dead and over 700 injured. The violence had erupted during the protests against the CAA and the National Register of Citizens. Delhi Riots 2020: Court Defers Order on Umar Khalids Bail Plea.