New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Thursday in the Supreme Court alleged that Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam, and others seeking bail in a UAPA case in connection with the 2020 Delhi riots were playing the “victim card” and seeking release on the ground of prolonged incarceration.

The police opposed bail to them and called Umar Khalid the chief conspirator behind the riots, and the one who had mentored Sharjeel Imam in planning the first phase of the violence.

The riots were not spontaneous but part of a “deep-rooted, premeditated and pre-planned” conspiracy, it claimed.

“The evidence gathered from the period preceding the execution of the conspiracy; documented communications, coordinated plans, and alignments between actors; establishes a clear meeting of minds,” it said.

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