T he Supreme Court will continue to hear the bail pleas of activist Sharjeel Imam, former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) scholar Umar Khalid , and three others in the larger conspiracy case related to the 2020 Delhi riots .

On October 27, 2025, a Bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and N.V. Anjaria deferred the matter to October 31 after Additional Solicitor-General S.V. Raju, appearing for the Delhi Police, sought additional time to file a counter-affidavit.

The Delhi Police on Thursday (October 30, 2025) argued in the Supreme Court that former JNU student leader Umar Khalid and his co-accused conspired to use “sponsored” anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protests as a camouflage and a “radicalising catalyst” to engineer nation-wide communal riots to achieve the final goal of

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