The Delhi High Court Tuesday reserved order on bail pleas of JNU college students Natasha Narwal and Devangana Kalita, arrested in reference to the communal riots in north-east Delhi final 12 months.
A bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul and Anup Jairam Bhambhani heard the arguments on behalf of counsel for Narwal and Kalita and reserved its order on the bail petitions.
Advocate Adit S Pujari, showing for the 2 college students, had argued earlier than the bench that the investigation within the case was “tainted”.
Special Public Prosecutor (SPP) Amit Mahajan, representing Delhi Police, had opposed the pleas and claimed that Narwal and Kalita had been effectively conscious of the acts being carried out in the course of the riots and that it could result in penalties which could possibly be disastrous.
Police had contended that they had been half of a bigger conspiracy to threaten the unity, integrity and concord of the nation.
Narwal and Kalita had filed their appeals difficult a trial courtroom’s order dismissing their bail pleas in a Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) case associated to the riots.
Narwal and Kalita, who’re additionally members of Pinjra Tod (break the cage) group, had been arrested final 12 months in May in reference to the communal riots in north-east Delhi and are in judicial custody.
They had been arrested by the Crime Branch of the Delhi Police and booked underneath varied sections of the Indian Penal Code together with rioting, illegal meeting and try to homicide.
They have additionally been booked underneath the stringent anti-terror legislation – UAPA in a separate case associated to the communal violence in north-east Delhi in February final 12 months, for allegedly being a part of a “premeditated conspiracy” within the riots.
Communal clashes had damaged out in north-east Delhi on February 24, 2020 after violence between the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) supporters and protesters spiralled uncontrolled leaving at the least 53 folks lifeless and round 200 injured.
In all, 4 circumstances have been registered towards Kalita, together with in relation to the northeast Delhi riots and violence in outdated Delhi’s Daryaganj space throughout protests towards the CAA in December 2019.
Narwal is accused in three circumstances.
Both of them have been granted bail within the different circumstances apart from the one underneath UAPA.
The trial courtroom had on January 28 dismissed their bail pleas saying the allegations towards them had been prima facie true and provisions of anti-terror legislation have been rightly invoked within the current case.
