The
Supreme Court on Tuesday adjourned the hearing of the bail plea filed by former
Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student Umar Khalid in a UAPA case related to
the alleged conspiracy behind the North-East Delhi riots in February 2020.
A
bench of Justices Bela Trivedi and Dipankar Dutta adjourned the hearing as
senior advocate Kapil Sibal, representing Khalid, was unavailable.
The
bench expressed its disapproval over the request for adjournment on behalf of
Khalid and granted the last opportunity saying no adjournment shall be granted
in the case.
It
has now posted the matter for hearing next week.
Khalid
had approached the top court challenging an October 2022 Delhi High Court
verdict that had denied bail to him.
Khalid,
arrested by Delhi Police in September 2020, in the High Court had sought bail
on grounds that he neither had any "criminal role" in the violence in
the city's North-East area nor any "conspiratorial connect" with any
other accused in the case. The Delhi police had opposed the bail plea of
Khalid.