The former JNU scholar was refused bail in the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act case linked to the alleged conspiracy behind the February 2020 communal riots.
Ahmed was arrested on 19 June, 2020, and has been in custody without significant progress in trial. He cited violation of constitutional right to liberty for seeking bail.
A division bench of Justices Navin Chawla and Shalinder Kaur had reserved its verdict on 9 July after hearing the batch of petitions, which had been pending in HC since 2022.
Ahmed, accused in larger conspiracy caser linked to the 2020 riots, has requested a 15-day interim bail, citing his son's admission to a new school for upcoming academic session.
3 of the 9 murder cases involve the same set of accused. In these, all 12 Hindu men were acquitted by a Delhi court. Judgments in the remaining 6 cases are awaited.
Special Judge Kaveri Baweja passed the order on April 9, after she was told that the notice issued by the court to some of the respondents could not be served.
The film got embroiled in a row when Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi held a press conference on 26 January, urging the Election Commission to halt its release.
Filmmaker Devendra Malviya, an advisor to CBFC, denied any BJP involvement in the making of '2020 Delhi', saying the film's release date before Delhi election is 'purely coincidental'.
Asking Goa to give up 4% of a river’s flow to help parched districts seems reasonable, moral. But it masks a deeper ethical problem: who bears the burden of the ‘greater common good’?
SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.
India exited the Indo-Russian FGFA programme in 2018. But now it might procure at least 2 squadrons of Su-57 aircraft from Russia and evaluate Russian proposal to manufacture them in India.
Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.
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