The Delhi Excessive Courtroom on Tuesday will hear bail pleas of Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam and different accused within the UAPA case associated to February 2020 Delhi riots.
A Bench comprising Justices Navin Chawla and Shalinder Kaur are scheduled to listen to the instances.
Khalid, Imam and others have been booked beneath the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and provisions of the IPC for allegedly being the “masterminds” of the February 2020 riots, which left 53 folks lifeless and over 700 injured.
The violence erupted throughout the protests in opposition to the CAA and NRC. The accused individuals sought bail from the courtroom on the grounds, together with their extended incarceration and parity with co-accused who have been granted bail.
Most accused individuals, together with Imam, Gulfisha Fatima and Khalid Saifi, filed their bail functions in 2022 with totally different benches listening to the instances infrequently.
Will KTR seem earlier than ED in Formulation E case?
A day after excessive drama unfolded when Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president and former Telangana minister Ok T Rama Rao appeared earlier than the Anti-Corruption Bureau of the Telangana Police in reference to the Formulation E case, all eyes can be on him because the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned him in reference to the identical case.
On Monday, Rao was denied the corporate of his lawyer, prompting him to submit his assertion outdoors the workplace. Rao reached the ACB headquarters shortly after 10 am and was barred from coming into the premises by the police, who objected to the presence of his lawyer.
The BRS chief, also called KTR, spoke to the police officers whereas seated in his automobile. He handed over his written assertion supposed for submission to an ACB official, outdoors the workplace and returned with out showing earlier than the officers.
“I’m a law-abiding citizen. I’m right here, respecting the Anti-Corruption Bureau and its discover issued to me. I can even be sure that I’ll give all the knowledge that they need. However (I’ll give) within the presence of my lawyer as a result of they’re, they have been previously, created a scenario the place issues which weren’t mentioned by our chief have reportedly been mentioned.
The ACB on December 19 registered a case in opposition to Rama Rao over alleged funds, a few of it in overseas foreign money with out approvals, to conduct the race in 2023 throughout the earlier regime.
The case was registered beneath related sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act and IPC coping with prison misappropriation, prison misconduct, prison breach of belief and prison conspiracy that allegedly resulted in loss to the federal government exchequer to the tune of about Rs 55 crore.
Although the race was alleged to be held in February 2024 as effectively, it was cancelled after the Congress authorities assumed workplace in December 2023.
Amit Shah to launch Bharatpol
Union House Minister Amit Shah will launch ‘Bharatpol’ portal developed by the CBI on Tuesday that may enable state police and different central legislation enforcement companies real-time info sharing for quicker entry to worldwide police help by way of Interpol.
The central probe company has designed the brand new cutting-edge on-line platform that may enable police forces of states and Union Territories and central companies to seamlessly ship their requests looking for info from Interpol on fugitives holed overseas or different affairs, officers mentioned.
The necessity to develop speedy and real-time worldwide help in prison investigations was felt because of the rising footprint of transnational crimes together with cyber-crime, monetary crimes, on-line radicalization, organised crimes, drug trafficking, human trafficking and so on, a press release from the House Ministry mentioned.
The Central Bureau of Investigation is the Nationwide Central Bureau of India solely accountable for Interpol-related affairs.
Vice-President Dhankhar in Karnataka
Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar will go to Dharmasthala in Karnataka on Tuesday and can inaugurate the Mega Queue Advanced and launch the 2024-25 Jnanadeepa programme at Shree Kshetra Dharmasthala, his workplace mentioned on Monday.
– With PTI inputs
