Terming the 2020 Delhi riots as an “orchestrated, pre-planned, and well-designed” attack on the sovereignty of India, the Delhi Police on Tuesday vehemently opposed the bail pleas of accused Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam and three others, saying the riots were not something spontaneous.

“First of all, that myth (has) to be busted. This was not a spontaneous riot after the CAA/NRC protests…. It was a well-designed, well-crafted, well-orchestrated, pre-planned riot. That will emerge from the evidence collected...speech after speech, statement after statement, there was an attempt to divide the society on communal lines. It was not merely an agitation against some act,” Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told a bench led by Justice Aravind Kumar on behalf of the Delhi Police.

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