New Delhi: The 2020 North East Delhi riots was not a spontaneous protest, but a “conspiracy hatched” to achieve the “final regime change goal” in India. It was a carefully crafted pan-India violence to destabilise the country’s internal harmony and international standing.

With this submission the Delhi Police Thursday opposed in the Supreme Court the bail plea of a few accused in the larger conspiracy case related to the 2020 riots. Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam, Meeran Haider, Gulfisha Fatima and Shifa Ur Rehman are before the top court, questioning the 2 September Delhi High Court order, refusing bail to them.

According to the police affidavit, the riots were not spontaneous and there is sufficient evidence—ocular, documentary and technical—linking the accused to the riots and the conspi

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