Former JNU student body president Umar Khalid, who was detained in the northeast delhi rioting plot case underneath the strict anti-terror law UAPA, informed the jury on friday that the criminal complaint against him sounds like a web series or tv news script, and compared it to Harry Potter evil Voldemort.

Khalid and many others are suspected of always being the "evil geniuses" of the february 2020 riots, which resulted in the deaths of 54 people and the injuries of over 720 more, and in this matter, he has requested bail. Senior Attorney Trideep Pais, who is representing Khalid, told Sessions Judge amitabh Rawat that the charge sheet includes baseless claims against his clients and is the outcome of the police officer's vivid imagination. 

The lawyer also used Voldemort, a villain from the Harry Potter novels and films, to draw comparisons between the assertions in the charge sheet and other cases to prove that the police's final report was "utter garbage." Pais countered, "The criminal complaint is the fruit of the investigative officer's wild imagination, and the eyewitnesses have been found... He is not authoring the family man [web-series] script. This is a bill of lading." He claimed that the only way the police officer could have known this was if "he was inside Khalid's thoughts," referring to a sentence in the criminal complaint that indicated that Umar kept a respectable distance from delhi because he knew it would be tossed into the flames.
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SIBY JEYYA

04/09/2021 08:00 AM