Delhi riots: Bail pleas of Natasha Narwal dismissed
January 28, 2021 21:32
A
court in New Delhi on Thursday dismissed the bail plea of Jawaharlal Nehru University student and
Pinjra Tod member Natasha Narwal, booked under the stringent Unlawful
Activities (Prevention) Act in a north east Delhi riots case.
Narwal was
arrested in the case for allegedly being part of a premeditated
conspiracy in the riots.
Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat said in
a case of conspiracy of such a large scale, not having a video was not
so vital as generally conspiracy, by its very nature, is hatched in
secrecy and not having videos of such a conspiracy was obvious rather
than doubtful.
Communal violence had broken out in northeast Delhi on
February 24 last year after clashes between citizenship law supporters
and protesters spiralled out of control leaving at least 53 people dead
and around 200 injured.
Pinjra Tod (Break the Cage) was founded in 2015
with an aim to make hostels and paying guest accommodations less
restrictive for women students. -- PTI