The Delhi government on Thursday (October 30, 2025) filed counter affidavit against the bail applications of Umar Khalid and others in the 2020 Delhi riots case.

The Delhi government argued that there were “ocular and irrefutable” documentary as well as technical evidences against the petitioners showing their intrinsic, deep-rooted and fervent complicity in engineering a nation-wide riots on communal lines.

The affidavit also said the conspiracy was hatched, nurtured and executed by Khalid to strike at the very heart of the sovereignty and integrity of the country by destroying the communal harmony; instigating the crowd not only to abrogate public order but to instigate them to an extent of armed rebellion.

The Supreme Court on October 27, 2025 adjourned to October 31 the hearing on

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