The Delhi Police on Thursday objected before the Supreme Court to the bail plea of Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam and others in the UAPA case linked to the alleged larger conspiracy behind the 2020 north-east Delhi riots, saying the alleged offences involved a deliberate attempt to destabilise the state.

Delhi police, in an affidavit, said that the conspiracy was pre-planned to be executed at the time when the US president was to make an official visit to India, and thus was executed so as to draw the attention of international media and to make the issue of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) a global issue.

“The materials on record, including the chats referencing US President Donald Trump, establish beyond doubt that the instant conspiracy was pre-planned to be executed at the time when t

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