The Karkardooma court granted 10-days custody of former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student leader Umar Khalid to Special Cell of Delhi Police on Monday.
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.
During the course of proceedings, Special Public Prosecutor Amit Prasad sought 10 days police custody to confront Khalid with huge technical data running into 11 lakh 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".
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.
"Since technical data and other material are substantial which needs to be confronted, it is necessary that 10 days police custody remand be granted," the remand application said.
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.
