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“Is organising a protest website sufficient (for attracting offences underneath) Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act?” — the Delhi Excessive Courtroom on Wednesday posed the query to the prosecution because it heard the arguments associated to the bail pleas of the accused within the 2020 Delhi riots bigger conspiracy case.
Whereas presenting the arguments associated to the bail pleas of pupil activists resembling Umar Khalid, and Sharjeel Imam, amongst others, for the second day in a row, particular public prosecutor Amit Prasad took the court docket by means of varied WhatsApp chats and video footage in a bid to ascertain conspiracy on behalf of the accused. The matter was being heard by a division bench of Justices Navin Chawla and Shalinder Kaur.
Justice Chawla orally inquired, “The issue is just this. Is it your case that solely organising a protest website is sufficient (trigger for attracting offences underneath) UAPA? Or if these protest websites resulted in violence (be the trigger for attracting offences) UAPA?…See, crucial factor is intent underneath UAPA which needs to be established… Allow us to say chakka jam (the place demonstrators block visitors) just isn’t protest…then have they (the accused) exceeded their rights?”
In his arguments, Prasad emphasised that the “whole conspiracy was executed by means of a number of Whatsapp teams”.
The bench has sought that the prosecution present a desk of which Whatsapp teams every of the accused, who’re looking for bail earlier than the Delhi HC, have been a part of.
The bench has additionally sought that the prosecution additionally present a chart of which accused attended which conferences as alleged by the prosecution.
The court docket is because of take up the matter for additional listening to on Thursday the place the prosecution is predicted to proceed its arguments.
Eight accused within the case, together with Khalid and Imam, together with others, are earlier than the Delhi Excessive Courtroom, looking for bail within the bigger conspiracy case in regards to the 2020 Delhi riots. They’re dealing with allegations of a pre-planned conspiracy to trigger riots in Northeast Delhi between February 23, 2020 and February 25, 2020.
The accused have been booked for offences underneath the sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Prevention of Harm to Public Property Act, Arms Act, and Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act, and have been in jail for over 4 years now.
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