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"The accused persons, who are sought to be produced in fetters and handcuffs, are admittedly not previous convicts. They are not even gangsters," the Additional Sessions Judge stated in an order dated June 5.

A court here turned down a plea of Delhi police to produce former JNU student Umar Khalid and activist Khalid Saifi in handcuffs before trial courts, noting that “they are not gangsters”. The application, which came up for hearing before additional sessions judge Vinod Yadav, sought to produce the 2020 Delhi riots accused in “handcuffs in both hands from back side”, contending that they are “high-risk prisoners”. The judge dismissed the plea observing that it is devoid of merits an...

New Delhi [India], June 7 (ANI): A Delhi court on Sunday dismissed the application seeking to produce two accused-- Umar Khalid and Khalid Saifi-- in the North-East violence case in "fetters and handcuffs".

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Indias political prisoners at risk amid Covid-19 surge in overcrowded jails Some detainees have been released to stop coronavirus spiralling in jails; but many political prisoners remain behind bars 26 May 2021 • 5:28pm Jails in India are notoriously over capacity, making fears of a Covid-19 catastrophe a real possibility  Credit: Umer Asif For 10 days Ashraf Sehrai, 77, complained of classic Covid-19 symptoms, but the prison authorities in Udhampur Jail, in the Jammu and Kashmir region of I...

Umar Khalid Recovers from COVID-19 in Tihar Jail Umar Khalid, who was arrested last year for his alleged role in the northeast Delhi riots, has recovered from COVID-19, and has been returned to his cell. Umar Khalid. Photo: Umar Khalid Official/Facebook Rights14/May/2021 New Delhi: Former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student Umar Khalid, who was arrested in connection with the 2020 Delhi riots, has recovered from COVID-19 in Tihar jail and returned to his cell, officials said on Thursday....

First published on Thu 13 May 2021 05.06 EDT An ashen-faced Natasha Narwal emerged on bail from Delhi’s notorious Tihar jail on Monday evening. It was the freedom one of India’s most prominent feminist activists had spent a year fighting for, but this was an exit steeped only in sadness; it had come 24 hours too late. A day earlier, Narwal’s 71-year-old father, Dr Mahavir Narwal, had died of Covid-19, alone in a hospital intensive care unit in the city of Rohtak – another vi...