New Delhi: The Centre on Tuesday took a firm and uncompromising position before the Supreme Court as it opposed the bail pleas of Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam, Gulfisha Fatima, Meeran Haider, and others accused in the 2020 Delhi riots larger conspiracy case.

Appearing for the Delhi Police, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta and Additional Solicitor General SV Raju described the riots not as a spontaneous burst of anger against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), but as a “well-designed, well-crafted and pre-planned attack” on the country’s social fabric and sovereignty.

‘An Orchestrated Attempt To Divide Society’: Centre To SC

Opening the arguments before a Bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and N.V. Anjaria, Mehta said that the popular perception that the riots were a natural outgrowth of an

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