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The Wire Exclusive: Story of a UAPA Prisoner Ishrat Jahan | Delhi Riots | CAA-NRC Mar 24, 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlrtKqEgKvA 

Delhi Court Grants Ishrat Jahan Bail in UAPA Case, 'No More Pending Cases,' Says Lawyer https://thewire.in/law/delhi-court-grants-ishrat-jahan-bail-in-uapa-case-no-more-pending-cases-says-lawyer  14/MAR/2022 
Jahan's lawyer Pradeep Teotia has said that this bail order clears the way for her release from judicial custody.

Teotia told the court that Jahan is a lawyer and a young person in politics. “I was victorious from a ward where Muslims are less in number…She was a popular lady. They have no single iota of evidence regarding her involvement in the conspiracy.”

The prosecution sought to establish that the Delhi riots were the result of a “premeditated conspiracy” and that “whoever does whatever singular act as a part of criminal conspiracy will be responsible for others’ act.”

It argued that the Khureji Khas anti-CAA protest site was engineered by the Jamia Coordination Committee, with whom Jahan was in touch. It also sought to establish that Jahan was in touch with Sharjeel Imam through a WhatsApp group.

Jahan is the sixth person accused in this UAPA case who has been granted bail. Earlier, courts gave bail to Natasha Narwal, Devangana Kalita, Jamia Asif Iqbal Tanha, Safoora Zargar and Faizan Khan.

The Delhi Police Special Cell had filed an over 17,000-page-chargesheet in the case in September 2020, alleging that Mr. Khalid and several other student activists pre-planned and conspired the north-east Delhi riots which killed over 50 persons and left more than 700 injured. His bail application has been pending before ASJ Rawat for nearly eight months now.

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24th March, 2022

https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/court-defers-order-on-umar-khalids-bail-plea-again/article65253566.ece

Kappan and three others were arrested at a toll plaza in Mathura on October 5, 2020, when he was on his way to Hathras. According to the first information report filed by the UP police on October 7, Kappan has been charged under sections 124A (sedition), 153A (promoting enmity) and 295A (deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings), in addition to provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and the Information Technology Act. 

Chargesheet The entire chargesheet – a copy of which hasn’t been given to all the three defence lawyers in the case – is split into 21 booklets. The pages with screenshots from the accused’s social media are in part 15. There is no daily diary note accompanying the 12 pages of screenshots, so it’s not clear why the UP STF included tweets by CFI’s general secretary Rouf Sharif, former editor of the newspaper Thejas Daily P Koya, and PFI member Masood Ahmed.   The UP STF has not explained how tweets criticising the RSS, which is closely affiliated to the BJP, may be considered incriminatory or evidence of a conspiracy....

Investigative agencies are within their rights to show selected social media posts, but there is no clarity as to what the UP STF intends to establish with the screenshots that it has included in its chargesheet.

Krishnesh Bapat, CCG Fellow at the Internet Freedom Foundation, said, “The investigative agencies may rely on these posts even if they are not incriminatory. The law only requires the posts to be relevant to the proceedings. For example, in case the posts adduce motive to commit the alleged offence, they are relevant.”

Newslaundry’s ongoing series on the case against journalist Siddique Kappan. https://www.newslaundry.com/media/the-siddique-kappan-chargesheet