Umar Khalid and several others have been booked under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), a stringent anti-terror law, and are accused of being the
The anti-CAA protest was secular but the charge sheet in the Delhi riots conspiracy case was communal and the police fabricated a story to suit its narrative, former JNU student leader Umar Khalid told a court calling it a "naked form of false implication".
Khalid's legal counsel also reiterated that the chargesheet in the case was born out of the investigating officer's "fertile imagination" and that Khalid should not have been made an accused in the case in the first place.