While opposing the bail plea of Umar Khalid before the High Court, the Delhi Police on Monday said that he was desperate to give a speech at Amaravati even though permission was not granted by Maharashtra Police.
It argued that a wrong narrative was being tried to be set up by flashing wrong messages in the DPSG. A division bench of justices Sidharth Mridul and Rajanish Bhatnagar, after hearing the arguments, adjourned the hearing till Tuesday. This case is connected with the larger conspiracy of the North East Delhi riots. Special public prosecutor (SPP) Amit Prasad submitted before the bench that the date of Trump’s visit was declared on February 11, 2020, and after that, Umar Khalid was desperate to give a speech at Amaravati on February 17, 2020. He submitted that permission was not granted for the programme by Maharashtra authorities as the name of Umar Khalid was there in the list of speakers.Another application filed on February 12, 2020, by the office bearer of the Welfare Party of India (WPI) was allowed by the authorities only for six speakers.
The name of Umar Khalid was not on the list of speakers. WPI is headed by his father. Despite the lack of permission, Umar Khalid attended the programme and delivered a speech on February 17, 2020. It shows his desperation, SPP added.
SPP Amit Prasad also argued that after the news of the killing of a police officer at Jafrabad by a website on February 24, 2020, there was panic in the DPSG group. There was a message from Rahul Roy to Umar Khalid to call him, but he did not respond. Umar Khalid attended a meeting at Jafrabad on the night of January 22, 2020. SPP added that Natasha Narwal was the person responsible for the Jafrabad Seelampur protest site, SPP added. SPP argued that Umar Khalid was in Samastipur, Bihar, and from there he made a call to Natasha Narwal in the evening.
Thereafter, there was a flurry of calls between the conspirators. Thereafter, all the main conspirators assembled in the New Delhi area. He said that Umar Khalid, who was masking himself, started to respond after the news of the killing of a police officer came in. Though the killing took place at another place. He also showed through WhatsApp chats that Tasleem was directly reporting to Umar Khalid, though the person of responsibility was Natasha Narwal. Tasleem also informed us about roadblocks in Jafrabad. During the arguments through the PowerPoint presentation (PPT), Amit Prasad showed that there were two meetings in Chandbagh which were attended by Athar Khan and other accused. He also showed the dislocation and disconnection of CCTV cameras in the Chandbagh area. It was also shown that Saleem Malik, alias Munna, Salim Khan, and others were involved in this act. He also showed footage of Ibrahim carrying a sword.
SPP also claimed that the DPSG, which was a closed group with only persons of responsibility as members, was opened up after the violence and people from outside were admitted. Rahul Roy deleted four members, including Athar Khan, from the group. A wrong narrative was trying to be set up by flashing the wrong message in the DPSG. One of which read that there were RSS goons on the protest site. Lawyers and media mobilisation are needed.