The Delhi Police, on Thursday, in an affidavit to the Supreme Court, objected to the bail plea of Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam and others in the UAPA case linked to the alleged larger conspiracy behind the 2020 north-east Delhi riots.

Delhi Police said that the materials on record, including the chats referencing US President Donald Trump, establish beyond doubt that the instant conspiracy was pre-planned to be executed at the time when the US President was to make an official visit to India.

This was done so as to draw the attention of international media and to make the issue of CAA a global issue by portraying it as an act of a pogrom of the Muslims community in India, according to the affidavit of the Delhi police.

The issue of CAA was carefully chosen to serve as a “radicalising cata

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