The affidavit further stated that 750 FIRs and 200 charge sheets have been filed relating to communal violence in Delhi. An FIR number 65 of 2020, the police further claim that Khalid hatched a broad conspiracy along with Tahir Hussian to defame and malign the duly elected government at the centre in relation to the CAA and link it with the visit of the U.S. The Delhi police to back up this claim has claimed in an affidavit filed on July 13th that the motives behind anti-CAA protests was “secessionist” in nature and were using “the façade of civil disobedience” to destabilize the government. Umar is charged under four sections of the UAPA (2019) which includes abetment, causing death, fundraising and conspiracy.
This was in the context of raging nationwide demonstrations against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act of 2019 which makes sweeping changes to the original statute including religious criteria being one among them.
Umar Khalid was charged under the sections of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Act of 2019 under FIR 59 of 2020 which was filed on March 6th of 2020 in relation to the Delhi violence which broke out in February which claimed 53 lives. On Septemformer PhD scholar from Jawaharlal Nehru University and a political activist, Umar Khalid was arrested by the special cell of Delhi police following 11 hours of detailed interrogation by the police.
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