# India: Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam go back to Supreme Court for bail

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/india-umar-khalid-sharjeel-imam-go-back-to-supreme-court-for-bail/
- Published: 2026-11-06T07:40:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-06T08:23:39+00:00
- Original publisher: DW (publisher lean: Centre)
- Original article: https://www.dw.com/en/india-umar-khalid-sharjeel-imam-go-back-to-supreme-court-for-bail/live-79872047?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf
- Topics: Asia, World

## Key points

- Khalid and Imam have renewed their Supreme Court bail pleas.
- Their trial has not begun after more than six years in custody.
- The court clarified when the 24-hour production deadline starts.

## Summary

Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam have returned to India’s Supreme Court to seek bail in the 2020 Delhi riots conspiracy case, after a lower court rejected their latest pleas. Their appeal renews scrutiny of their lengthy pre-trial detention, as the case has yet to reach trial nearly seven years after the violence.

The two challenge a Delhi High Court ruling of 30 September, which said it was bound by the Supreme Court’s earlier decision denying them bail. That ruling allowed them to reapply after protected witnesses were examined or a year had passed, whichever came first; Imam says none of 47 such witnesses has been examined during his six years and nine months in custody. Their petition also cites more than 900 witnesses still to be examined and the constitutional right to life and liberty. In a separate case, the Supreme Court said the 24-hour deadline to produce an arrested person before a magistrate begins at detention.

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