Supreme Court Rejects Bail for Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam, Grants Gulfisha and Four Others Bail
05 January 2026 | The Wire
The Supreme Court has rejected bail for Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam, both incarcerated for over five years in connection with what the Delhi Police believes is the “larger conspiracy” behind the Delhi communal violence of 2020, while granting bail to Gulfisha Fatima, Meeran Haider, Shifa Ur Rehman, Shadab Ahmed, and Mohammad Saleem Khan.
The Supreme Court claimed, according to Bar and Bench, that “to disregard the distinction between the central roles played by some accused and the facilitatory role played by other accused would itself result in arbitrariness.”…