Hyderabad: Former Madhya Pradesh chief minister and senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh on Tuesday came out in the support of human rights activist, former student, and member of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Umar Khalid.
Tweeting with the hashtag in favour of Umar Khalid, Singh said, "Harsh Mander has been a very conscientious and honest IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre. I have been familiar with him for the last 35-40 years. If he is in favour of Umar Khalid, I am with him. Gandhian can never be of violent tendency."
Delhi Police's Special Cell had arrested Khalid on Sunday night under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, after questioning him for over ten hours. He was produced before Additional Session Judge Amitabh Rawat of Karkardooma court via video-conferencing on Monday afternoon.
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हर्ष मंदर एक बहुत ही कर्तव्यनिष्ठ एवं ईमानदार मध्यप्रदेश कॉडर के IAS अधिकारी रहे हैं। मैं उनसे पिछले ३५-४० वर्षों से परिचित हूँ। यदि वे उमर ख़ालिद के पक्ष में है तो मैं उनके साथ हूँ। गॉंधीवादी कभी हिंसक प्रवृत्ति का नहीं हो सकता। मैं #StandWithUmarKhalid का समर्थन करता हूँ। https://t.co/9r8h6i48fc
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">हर्ष मंदर एक बहुत ही कर्तव्यनिष्ठ एवं ईमानदार मध्यप्रदेश कॉडर के IAS अधिकारी रहे हैं। मैं उनसे पिछले ३५-४० वर्षों से परिचित हूँ। यदि वे उमर ख़ालिद के पक्ष में है तो मैं उनके साथ हूँ। गॉंधीवादी कभी हिंसक प्रवृत्ति का नहीं हो सकता। मैं #StandWithUmarKhalid का समर्थन करता हूँ। https://t.co/9r8h6i48fc
— digvijaya singh (@digvijaya_28) September 15, 2020हर्ष मंदर एक बहुत ही कर्तव्यनिष्ठ एवं ईमानदार मध्यप्रदेश कॉडर के IAS अधिकारी रहे हैं। मैं उनसे पिछले ३५-४० वर्षों से परिचित हूँ। यदि वे उमर ख़ालिद के पक्ष में है तो मैं उनके साथ हूँ। गॉंधीवादी कभी हिंसक प्रवृत्ति का नहीं हो सकता। मैं #StandWithUmarKhalid का समर्थन करता हूँ। https://t.co/9r8h6i48fc
— digvijaya singh (@digvijaya_28) September 15, 2020
During the course of proceedings, Special Public Prosecutor Amit Prasad sought 10 days police custody to confront Khalid with huge technical data running into 17,000 pages, "as well as other evidence collected during the investigation of the present case and also to examine at length about other suspects and various other aspects".
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According to the remand application, names of some more suspects have also cropped up during the investigation of riots and Khalid is required to be questioned at length about those suspects to obtain their exact particulars for further investigation.
Advocate Trideep Pais, representing Khalid in the case, opposed the remand application and claimed that his client was not in Delhi during the riots.
Pais said that no reason has been mentioned in the remand application as to why such drawn-out police custody is required. "Application has no base. Why has the police not mentioned which speech of Umar was problematic? What do they want for him in 10 days?" he asked.
