Overview
- Concluding submissions on Friday, Delhi Police told Justices Aravind Kumar and NV Anjaria that the violence was a planned conspiracy amounting to terrorist acts under the UAPA.
- ASG SV Raju and SG Tushar Mehta said the protests pursued "regime change," pointing to coordinated road blockades, armed mobilisation and the deliberate destruction of CCTV cameras.
- The prosecution played video from the Chand Bagh protest site and cited protected-witness accounts of a late-night meeting and a plan to disable surveillance before renewed violence.
- Opposing bail for Sharjeel Imam, Umar Khalid, Meeran Haider, Gulfisha Fatima, Shifa-ur-Rehman, Mohammad Saleem Khan and Shadab Ahmed, Raju invoked the Section 43D(5) bail bar and described Khalid as a "veteran of sedition," noting when pressed that this reference appears in the chargesheet, not the counter-affidavit.
- Police recounted 53 deaths and over 530 injuries, attributed the killings of Head Constable Ratan Lal and IB officer Ankit Sharma to coordinated attacks, and alleged riot financing by Tahir Hussain and Shifa-ur-Rehman now under ED scrutiny.