2020 Delhi riots: Court grants bail to Ishrat Jahan in bigger conspiracy case

By PTI

NEW DELHI: A Delhi courtroom on Monday granted bail to former Congress Councillor Ishrat Jahan within the case regarding the bigger conspiracy behind the Delhi riots of February 2020. The order was pronounced by Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat.

Jahan, together with a number of others, has been booked below the anti-terror legislation — Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) — within the case for being the “masterminds” of the February 2020 riots, which had left 53 folks useless and over 700 injured.

Earlier Jahan was granted interim bail in June 2020 for 10 days to get married and was directed to not tamper with the proof or affect the witnesses.

The violence had erupted throughout the protests towards the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), 2019, and the National Register of Citizens (NRC).

Besides Jahan, activist Khalid Saifi, Umar Khalid, JNU college students Natasha Narwal and Devangana Kalita, Jamia Coordination Committee members Safoora Zargar, former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain and several other others have additionally been booked below the stringent legislation within the case.