The Supreme Court on Wednesday adjourned till January 31 the hearing on the bail plea of former JNU student Umar Khalid in a case lodged under anti-terror law UAPA over his alleged involvement in the conspiracy behind the northeast Delhi riots of February 2020. A bench of Justices Bela M Trivedi and Ujjal Bhuyan deferred the matter as the bench was available only till lunch.
“List on January 31. High on board,” the bench said. Senior advocate C U
Singh, appearing for Khalid, submitted that he was ready to argue but unfortunately this bench is rising after lunch.
The matter was listed along with a batch of petitions challenging various provisions of the UAPA. Supreme Court judge Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra had on August 9 recused himself from hearing Khalid’s plea.
Khalid’s petition challenging the October 18, 2022 order of the Delhi High Court, which had rejected his bail plea in the matter, had come up for hearing before a bench of Justices A S Bopanna and Mishra. The high court had rejected Khalid’s bail plea, saying he was in constant touch with
other co-accused and the allegations against him were prima facie true.