Thread by @LawBeatInd

#DelhiCourt to hear Bail plea of former JNU student Umar Khalid in connection with Delhi Riots.

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Court to hear matter at 12.45 pm

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Adv Trideep Pais appears for Umar Khalid.

Pais places the copy of FIR.

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Pais- 750 FIRs stand registered in case of the Delhi Riots. i am not named in a single FIR and arrested in 1.
These FIR have been unnecessarily filed against me and it is targeted against persons important to the protest.

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Pais- 6th March FIR was framed so that you could get statements to frame people. They are all cooked up statements. The chargesheet is complete fabrication.

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Pais reads contents of FIR against Khalid.

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Copy of FIR

Pais- The basis of the FIR was “chakka Jam” and “bhadkau Bhashan” at different places.

Pais points out how FIRs were filed under different provisions of law.

Pais- The chargesheet will not stand the test. “Laughable” statements have been made. It is only to keep these people in jail. I submit none of the people in FIR 59 should be held in custody.

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Pais- How is the act preventive when you impose sections after I am arrested. Where is it preventing unlawful activities. The distress of judiciary are POTA, UAPA because the hands of judiciary are tied in granting bail to the accused.

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Pais shares a comparative chart of bail provisions under various special legislations.

Contd...

Pais- You (your lordship) have been given the solemn duty of perusing the case diary and the burden is on the prosecution to prove that there is a case against me.

There is no speech against me forget speeches.

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Pais refers to the transcription of Umar Khalid on youtube by Republic World allegedly on 17 Feb 2020 at Amrawati , Maharashtra.

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Pais now refers to News 18 channel.

Pais- The police sent notice to News 18. The police officer has watched youtube and sends notice after 10 days of the incident.

The reply by news 18 contains a DVD which is not part of the DVD.
Thereafter another notice is sent again.

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Pais- These are journalists who see video on YouTube and do not go the event and are unable to provide the raw footage.
The video was picked up from a tweet by a member of BJP.

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ASJ Amitabh Rawat-So the video was broadcast without verifying?

Pais- ofcourse mylordship.

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Pais- If you go back to the FIR it says I gave “bhadkau bhashan” at different places. This is FIR 59. Based on this you now cook stories.
If you go back to 6th march you have a video footage that is broadcasted from a tweet. This is the death of journalism.

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Pais- They have gone to the extent of fabricating statements that are shocking.
You have a truncated version of video from YouTube which is copied from a tweet.

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Pais shares the tweet.

Pais- It makes a world of difference where that one sentence was changed by News 18.
They have nothing against me except this video.

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Pais shares video footage of Umar Khalid’s speech at Amravati, Maharashtra.

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Pais- The reason that the entire speech was played was because to show that the contents are not seditious but opposed to the introduction of the new law.

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Pais-This is the starting point, he says “aap hinsa karenge toh hum pyar dikhayenge, aap jail bhejenge toh hum saare jahan se acha gakar sunayenge.”

This is what is happening. They are all in jail. This video is the best evidence against me and that too I have produced it.

Pais reads Para 20 of the Police submission.

Pais-The theory is that Khalid Saifi, Tahir Hussain and Umar Khalid met and prepared for the riot.

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Pais- They tell you that I was aware that Donald Trump was arriving when the MEA also did not know the dates...
The witnesses statement changes. It is shocking they will lie in any manner.

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Pais-There was a theory on February 22, that a conspiracy for riot was made when Donald Trump was to arrive in India.
On 21st May 2020, the witness does not speak of the meeting at all. Admittedly he was an employee of Mr Tahir Hussain.
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Pais-So how did you file the 22nd June chargesheet of riot. So they file a supplementary chargesheet where the witness speaks about the meeting.

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Pais- These are the kind of lies your lordship have to believe to deny me bail.

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Pais refers to submissions made in FIR 101 before ASJ Vinod Yadav.

Khalid was granted bail in the said FIR.

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Pais-on the 6th march you had nothing and then you make statements as and when you want to arraign people. This entire FIR is a cooked up. Let all the 750 people names in the FIR be investigated under IPC.

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Pais- It is naked on the face of it that this FIR is fabricated.

Bench adjourns hearing for the day.

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Matter to be heard on September 3 and 6.

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