Umar Khalid
Key points
- The Delhi Police Crimes Division arrested Umar Khalid in connection with his alleged role in the violence in northeast Delhi.
- The protest in northeast Delhi turned violent, killing 53 people.
- Khalid had asked people to take to the streets during Trump’s visit to India on February 24.
New Delhi: In an important development, the AAP government led by Arvind Kejriwal has approved the sanction of prosecution against Umar Khalid in the conspiracy case of riots in Delhi.
Delhi police arrested former Jawaharlal Nehru University student Umar Khalid under the Unlawful Activity (Prevention) Act in connection with the northeast Delhi riots that broke out in February this year.
Khalid has already been booked by UAPA along with Meeran Haider, a Jamia student and RJD youth wing president, Safoora Zargar, JCC media coordinator, and Danish, a resident of Bhajanpura, northeast Delhi.
Umar Khalid has been booked under the UAPA
In March, the BJP had alleged that the “tukde-tukde gang” had planned to smear the country during US President Donald Trump’s visit to India. The head of the Saffron party’s IT cell, Amit Malviya, also shared a video clip of Khalid claiming that the former JNU student had asked people to “take to the streets” during Trump’s visit to Delhi on February 24. .
The speech was delivered by Khalid on February 17 in Amravati, Maharashtra in which he had said that when Donald Trump visits India on February 24, they will show how the Indian government is trying to divide the country and cloud the principles of Mahatma Gandhi.
Khalid charged with plotting criminal conspiracy to cause communal disturbances
“We will take to the streets in great numbers to tell the President of the United States that the people of India are fighting to unite everyone. Do you want to hang out? “He had asked.
Khalid has been accused of plotting a criminal conspiracy to cause communal disturbances by inciting people to protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Registry of Citizens in the national capital.
According to the FIR filed by the Delhi Police, Khalid and his associates brought women and children to block the road at various locations in an attempt to hatch a conspiracy to incite riot. A Delhi police deputy inspector had also alleged that, as part of the conspiracy, firearms, gasoline bombs, acid bottles and stones were stored in houses in Kardampuri, Jafrabad, Chand Bagh, Gokulpuri, Shiv Vihar and areas close.
