Delhi High Court on Thursday asked Delhi police to file a status report on a bail plea by Jamia Millia Islamia student Safoora Zargar, arrested under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in a case related to the Delhi riots during the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act in February.
Zargar, an MPhil student of Jamia Millia Islamia University and a member of the Jamia Coordination Committee, is over four months pregnant.
Justice Rajiv Shakdher issued a notice to the police and asked it to file the status report on the bail plea. The court listed the matter for further hearing on June 22. Zargar, who was arrested on April 10, has challenged the trial court’s June 4 order denying her bail.
The trial court had said: “When you choose to play with embers, you cannot blame the wind to have carried the spark a bit too far and spread the fire.”
It had said that during the course of the investigation, a larger conspiracy was discernible and if there was prima facie evidence of the existence of a conspiracy, the proof of acts and statements made by any one of the conspirators in furtherance of the common object was admissible against all.
Delhi High Court (Picture courtesy: delhihighcourt.nic.in)
The court had said even if there were no direct act of violence attributable to the accused (Zargar), she could not shy away from her liability under the provisions of the anti-terror law.
However, the trial court had asked the concerned jail superintendent to provide adequate medical aid and the assistance to Zargar.
The police had earlier claimed that Zargar allegedly blocked a road near Jaffrabad Metro station during the anti-CAA protests and instigated people that led to the riots in the area.
It further claimed that she was allegedly part of the “premeditated conspiracy” to incite communal riots in northeast Delhi in February.
Communal clashes had broken out in northeast Delhi on February 24 after violence between citizenship law supporters and protesters spiralled out of control leaving at least 53 people dead and scores injured.
