Ex-JNU student Umar Khalid was taken to custody Sunday late night on the charges of being one of the prime co-conspirators of the huge scope riots that broke out in Delhi in February this year over the Citizenship Amendment Act.
The Special Cell of Delhi Police captured Khalid under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) after right around 11 hours of questioning. Khalid has been blamed for assuming an active part in inciting riots in Delhi.
No sooner did the updates on Khalid being captured by the Delhi Police regarding the Delhi riots come out, the typical suspects, who recognize themselves with the liberal philosophy, ejected with an intemperate meltdown on the social media, raving about the capture of Umar Khalid.
Swara Bhasker, who serves as a liberal defender and leftist apologist, called for scratching of the UAPA by and large in light of the fact that Umar Khalid was captured by the police under the Act.
Prashant Bhushan, lawyer in the Supreme Court legal, who was as of late held liable for contempt of court, took to Twitter to communicate his significant feeling of trouble with the capture of Umar Khalid. Bhushan, who had not avoided waking the Supreme Court in corrupt hours for the pardon supplication of 1993 Mumbai impact charged, Yakub Memon, pronounced that Khalid’s capture after the naming of Sitaram Yechury, Yogendra Yadav, Jayati Ghosh and Apoorvanand left no uncertainty about the malafide idea of Delhi police’s examination concerning Delhi riots.
Yogendra Yadav accepted the open door to laud Umar Khalid, who has been captured for inciting unrest in Delhi. Yadav posted a tweet communicating his stun over the capture of the previous JNU understudy, magnifying him as “young, thinking, idealist, who had always opposed violence and communalism in any form”.
Rana Ayyub, who as of late recuperated from COVID-19, shielded the people liable for the communal conflagration that ejected in the public capital on the affection of completing enemy of CAA fights.
It is relevant to take note of that one of the prime denounced in the Delhi riots case, ex-AAP councilor, Tahir Hussain, has named Umar Khalid as the person who acquainted him with Khalid Saifi for arranging the riots in the city.