Tired of seeing all that Umar Khalid glazing over here, especially by Tankies who never bothered to actually read the chargesheet, so here's a detailed post abt what actually happened.
Firstly, Umar Khalid was arrested by the Delhi Police in September 2020 under Case FIR 59/2020, charged under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), India's primary anti-terror law, alongside charges of murder and sedition.
The prosecutionās core case was that the February NE Delhi riots, which killed 53 people fyi, were not a sudden, spontaneous outburst.
Instead, the chargesheet alleged Khalid was a central remote mastermind who used anti-CAA protests to deliberately trigger communal violence and disrupt public order.
Now, Delhi HC and the Supreme Court have repeatedly DENIED him regular bail because the evidence points to a deeply planned conspiracy.
The police submitted thousands of pages of chats from groups like the Delhi Protests Support Group (DPSG). The Delhi HC explicitly stated these chats āprima facie prove a conspiracy, that they were together.ā
To this accusation, Khalid's team argued he was just a "silent member" who didn't type most messages. This is btw a weak defence. In a conspiracy case, being part of the secret coordinating unit makes you legally complicit.
The riots involved highly organized logistics. Terraces were systematically stockpiled weeks in advance with stones, petrol bombs, acid bottles, and mirchi bombs designed specifically to blind and disorient the police. The defense has never been able to factually explain away how these thousands of identical weapons appeared on rooftops overnight without a centralized plan.
But not only this, Umar Khalid openly supported terrorists like Afzal Guru (responsible for 2001 Parliament attack) and Maqbool Bhat (one of the founders of the terrorist organization Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front).
He was also seen raising the slogan: Tum kitne Afzal maroge, har ghar se Afzal niklega ~ Umar Khalid.
It won't be hard for Tankies and dickriders of Umar Khalid to call these videos fake, but his support was well evident on his Facebook account too, where he praised Burhan Wani, who was a commander of Hizbul Mujahideen, an Islamist terrorist group operating in Jammu and Kashmir.
Now, back to the question about why is his trial getting delayed, the only people that are to be blamed is his team.
Because of massive backlogs, Indian courts usually schedule hearings 2 to 3 months apart. So every single time Khalid's lawyers ask for an adjournment (more time to study documents, or because their senior counsel is busy elsewhere), they are pressing a 90-day pause button. The case gets pushed to the back of the line.
Rather than pushing to start the actual trial, the defense has flooded the lower court with mini-petitions demanding unedited video footage, extra data logs, and challenging technical rules. The law requires the judge to resolve every single one of these first, grinding the main trial to a halt.
The clearest example of self-inflicted delay happened when Khalidās bail plea finally reached the Supreme Court. Instead of letting the judges rule, his legal team suddenly WITHDREW the petition entirely, choosing to RESTART the whole process from scratch in the lower trial court.
The judiciary saw through this tactic. In a definitive ruling, the SC formally denied bail to Umar Khalid and co-accused Sharjeel Imam.
The bench sent a crystal-clear message to the defense: prolonged pre-trial detention cannot be used as an automatic "trump card" to get bail if the accused persons themselves are the ones causing the delays.
Former CJI D.Y. Chandrachud also publicly noted that court records show multiple adjournments were explicitly requested by the defense, which contradicts the false narrative that the State is somehow responsible for dragging the process.
So um yea Tankies can cope but this guy deserves to rot in jail (and he will)
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