Former JNU scholar Umar Khalid's attorney senior advocate Trideep Pais on Friday sought bail for Khalid withinside the Delhi riots case and stated the charge sheet filed through the Delhi Police reads like a script of Amazon Prime's 'Family Man', Livelaw reported. The charge sheet used rhetorics like 'veteran of sedition' (regarding Umar Khalid) and reads like "a 9 pm news script of 1 of these shouting news channels," the attorney stated including that the investigating officer has "fertile imagination".
"Please understand, he's not writing the script of Family Man. He is writing a charge sheet... This is the kind of stuff which is read and peddled, the creation of public opinion to substitute the lack of evidence to carry out your objective of unfairly prosecute people when you have no material to do so," Pais argued.
In framing the charge sheet, the Delhi Police largely relied on the 2016 charge sheet against Umar Khalid in the JNU sedition case. "What happened in 2016 was that there was a poetry session. It was later termed sedition. Nowhere was it ever alleged that 'Bharat tere tukde honge' was ever said by Umar Khalid," the advocate submitted before additional sessions judge Amitabh Rawat.
Pais couldn't complete his argument and the court will now hear the case once more on Monday.
The argument made through Umar Khalid's attorney revolved across the factor that the Delhi Police has lent a communal colour in its charge sheet to undertaking Umar Khalid communal in front of the public. "If you're saying CAA is bad, it means you agree within this country and secularism. But Delhi Police charge sheet paints anti-CAA protesters as communal," he submitted.
Khalid, alongside several others accused of being the mastermind of the February 2020 violence, was booked beneath neath the UAPA. In April, Umar Khalid was granted bail in one of the rebellion cases, saying that he was not present at the scene of the crime. But he persisted to be in prison in connection with the case wherein UAPA has been invoked towards him.