Custody extended illegally: Umar Khalid

November 23, 2020 17:24

Former JNU student leader Umar Khalid alleged before a court here on Monday that his custody in a case related to the northeast Delhi riots in February was extended illegally, mechanically and without prior intimation to his lawyers.

The submission was made before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Dinesh Kumar through video conferencing in the case related to rioting in Khajuri Khas area. Khalid was arrested in the case on October 1 and is in judicial custody.

He was earlier arrested in September in a separate case related to larger conspiracy in the riots which erupted between anti-CAA protesters and those supporting the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, killing over 50 people and scores injured. Advocate Sanya Kumar, appearing for Khalid, alleged that since the beginning of his arrest in the case, his lawyers were not given copies of the remand applications and denied information about when and before which judge he would be produced.

Time and time again the remand was mechanically granted. Case diaries were not signed, we were not supplied a copy of the remand application, she claimed. The court has put up the matter for further hearing on November 27.

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