Head of Umar Khalid students. , Photo credit: Emmanual Yogini
The left side criticized the decision of the High Court in Delhi to dismiss the bail of Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam and eight others for their alleged involvement in Delhi on Wednesday (September 3, 2025). CPI (m) stated that the court’s decision is “justice travesty” and the negation of the principle that “the deposit is a rule and rejection of an exception”. CPI (ml) called “their prolonged imprisonment” “political conspiracy to silence disapproving voices”.
Imam, Umar, Khalid Saifi, Meeran Haider, Gulfisha Fatima, Shifa-Ur-Rehman, Athar Khan, MoHd. Saleem Khan and Shadab Ahmed were booked according to the Act on Unlawful Activities (Prevention) for the alleged conspiracy of municipal unrest in February 2020 in Delhi. It was the fifth that their deposit application has been rejected in the last five years. CPI (m) said that in five years the police were not able to against accused accused.
“The decision of the High Court in Delhi represents the travesty of justice and the negation of the principles that” bail granting is the rule and rejection of the exception “,” the party said.
CPI (m) said that Misra and Anurag Thakur, whose alleged “incendiary manifestations actually stimulated the same municipal unrest” against the leaders of the BJP, were taken, no steps were taken. “It is also a serious judicial contradiction that while charging of a bomb in Malegaon like Pragya Singh Thakur, Colonel Prasad Purohit and others were liberated, Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam and others are forced to rot in prison for more than five years.
CPI (ML) said that eight activists were imprisoned on the basis of fancy accusations without the police Delhi “shredding trusted evidence”.
“The so -called” larger plot “, as the police called it in this case, is in fact in connection between the police and the right -wing groups of Hindutva,” the party said, describing BJP leader Mr. Misra.
Instead of keeping the responsibility of “real culprits”, the government decided to chase those who opposed the municipal violence and led democratic protests against the unconstitutional CAA-NRC, the party said. “Their long -term imprisonment is a political conspiracy to silence disapproving votes and intimidation of the movement that resists the municipal and authoritarian agenda, and the inability of the judiciary to defend civil freedoms reflects serious erosion of democratic institutions in the country,” CPI (ML) said.
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Published – 3 September 2025 20:50
