Overview
- The bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and N.V. Anjaria is listed to continue the matter on November 3, according to the Supreme Court causelist.
- The pleas challenge a Delhi High Court order denying bail to Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam, Gulfisha Fatima, Meeran Haider, Shifa Ur Rehman and others under the UAPA in the alleged larger conspiracy case.
- Defence counsel argued there were no calls for violence or incriminating recoveries, cited alibis and prolonged delay, and noted Fatima’s over five years in custody as the only woman still jailed in the case.
- Opposing bail, the Delhi Police affidavit alleges a pre-planned plot timed with the US president’s visit, cites chats referencing Donald Trump, and attributes 53 deaths and 753 FIRs to the alleged conspiracy with claimed ocular, documentary and technical evidence.
- Arguments included assertions that Khalid was named in only one of roughly 751 riot FIRs and that investigators kept filing supplementary chargesheets through September 2024, slowing trial progress.