The Delhi Police on Monday told the Supreme Court that activist Umar Khalid, accused of being part of a “larger conspiracy” behind the 2020 Delhi riots, cannot demand the same treatment as co-accused Devangana Kalita, Natasha Narwal and Asif Iqbal Tanha because the High Court’s 2021 bail order in their favour was passed on an incorrect interpretation of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, Live Law reported.

Additional Solicitor General SV Raju said that in 2021, while granting bail to Kalita and others, the High Court had erred in holding that the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act applied only to offences concerning the “defence of India”, the legal news outlet reported.

This meant that the High Court had wrongly treated the statutory bar on bail in Section 43D(5) of the anti-

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