A court in Delhi on Thursday rejected the bail pleas of Pinjra Tod members Devangana Kalita and Natasha Narwal, who have been booked under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in connection with the large scale communal violence that broke out in the Capital in February last year.
Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat, who passed the orders, said the allegations against both of them prima facie seemed to be true, adding that provisions of anti-terror law have been rightly invoked against the two.
In Kalita’s case, the judge said she was part of a “multilayered conspiracy”, according to Live Law.
“The entire conspiracy beginning from December 2019 of intentionally blocking roads to cause inconvenience and causing disrupting of supplies of services essential to the life of community of India resulting in violence with various means and then leading to the February incident with the focus being targeted blocking of roads at mixed population areas and creating…