Umar Khalid seeks bail, says no evidence link to 2020 Delhi riots

Seeking bail in the UAPA case linked to February 2020 riots in Delhi, activist Umar Khalid on Friday told the Supreme Court that there is no evidence linking him to violence and denied conspiracy charges against him.

Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for Khalid, told a bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and N V Anjaria that there has been no recovery of funds,



weapons or any material evidence linking him to the 2020 Delhi riots.

“There are 751 FIRs, I am charged in one, and if it’s a conspiracy, it’s a bit surprising! “If I (Umar Khalid) conspired riots. On dates in which riots took place, I was not in Delhi,” Sibal said and added that no funds, weapons and physical evidence connecting me to violence have been found yet.