[Marxistindia] Deplore Denial of Bail

[news from the cpi(m)]

September 3, 2025

Press Statement

 

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the
following statement:

 

CPI(M) Deplores Delhi High Court Denial of Bail 

to Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam and Eight Others

 

The Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) deplores the Delhi High Court's denial of
bail to Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam and eight others. All of them have been
under detention for over five years under the draconian UAPA for being
linked to the alleged "conspiracy" behind the February 2020 communal riots
in Delhi. This is the fifth time that their bail application is being
rejected in the last five years. It is all the more disturbing that even the
charges against them have not been framed for the last five years. The Delhi
High Court's decision amounts to a travesty of justice, and negation of the
principle that "grant of bail is the rule and refusal the exception".

 

It is pertinent to note here that while these ten youth languish in jail for
over five years without any conviction and even without any proof, BJP
leaders like Kapil Mishra and Anurag Thakur, whose incendiary speeches
actually fuelled the same Delhi communal riots, are roaming around
scot-free. It is also a grave judicial contradiction that while the accused
in the Malegaon bomb blasts like Pragya Singh Thakur, Colonel Prasad Purohit
and others were acquitted, Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam and others are made to
rot in jails for over five years.

 

 

 

Muralidharan

(For CPI(M) Central Committee Office)

          

 

 

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