A court in Delhi on Wednesday extended by 14 days former Jawaharlal Nehru University student Umar Khalid’s judicial custody in a case relat...
A court in Delhi on Wednesday extended by 14 days former Jawaharlal Nehru University student Umar Khalid’s judicial custody in a case related to the large-scale communal violence in the Capital in February, PTI reported.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Dinesh Kumar noted that there was sufficient basis for the extension of Khalid’s custody. He was hearing the case related to riots in the Muslim-dominated Khajuri Khas area in North East Delhi.
Kumar said that there was no scope for hearing Khalid’s request for permission to oppose the remand application because his lawyer had not filed a bail application.
“No doubt remand of an accused should not be extended mechanically,” the magistrate said. “However, there is no scope of hearing the counsel of the accused and giving him/her opportunity to oppose the remand application whenever the remand is to be extended.”
The court added that Khalid could move a bail application if he believed that “there is no need of the custody and therefore, there is no requirement of extension of judicial custody remand”.
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Khalid has also been arrested...
