A court in Delhi on Thursday sent former Jawaharlal Nehru University student and activist Umar Khalid to judicial custody till October 22, PTI reported. Khalid has been arrested under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act for his alleged role in the February violence in the Capital.
Khalid was arrested on September 11 by the Delhi Police’s Special Cell, after nearly 11 hours of questioning. He has been accused of being one of the main conspirators involved in the violence. He has also been charged with sedition and 18 other sections of the Indian Penal Code, including murder and attempt to murder.
The police claimed that Khalid conspired to engineer the communal violence in Delhi during United States President Donald Trump’s visit to India earlier this year “so that a propaganda may be ashed at international forum that the Muslim minority community in India are…