A bench headed by Justice Mukta Gupta issued notice on the appeal of the accused challenging the rejection of his bail by the trial court and directed that the matter be listed before another bench dealing with the bail pleas of other accused in the case.
Shahrukh Pathan was involved in the 2020 northeast Delhi riots in which he was found brandishing a loaded pistol towards a policeman in the Jafrabad area.
Hearing pleas, a division bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul, Rajnish Bhatnagar noted that a matter challenging constitutional validity of offence of Sedition under Section 124A of IPC is pending for hearing before SC on May 5.
A petition was filed in the Supreme Court seeking directions for an inquiry headed by a former CJI into the clashes that took place in Delhi and other states during Ram Navami.
According to sources, Ansar held the meeting at Kushal Chowk in Jahangirpuri with 30 people in which it was planned as to how they would stop the procession.
It was a disputed BMW car and Ansar had taken its illegal custody using his criminal background. Later he gave the car to someone who lived in West Bengal.
The apex court also said that it will take a serious view of the demolition on Wednesday, which was carried out even after its orders though the NDMC Mayor was informed.
Earlier in morning, the Supreme Court stayed the anti-encroachment drive in Delhi's violence-hit Jahangirpuri and ordered to maintain the status quo.
A bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana ordered status quo in the present situation, and said the petition would be listed before an appropriate bench.
A video that the police said is circulating on social media, showed Sonu alias Imam alias Yunus in a blue kurta opening fire during the incident.
Clashes broke out between two groups after stone-pelting incidents were reported in the Jahangirpuri area on Saturday evening.
Twenty-five people have been arrested in connection with the stone-pelting and arson in which some vehicles were also torched during the clashes between two communities on Saturday evening.
Delhi Police Sub-Inspector Medha Lal had sustained bullet injuries during violence at Jahangirpuri on Saturday.
Clashes broke out between two groups after stone-pelting incidents were reported from the Jahangirpuri area in the national capital on Saturday evening during a procession.
The communal clashes were first reported at Jahangirpuri’s block B and C. The area is mostly inhabited by wokring class population.
The BJP leader said that time has come to remove illegal infiltrators from the country by checking the papers of each of them.
After clashes broke out between two communities during a Hanuman Jayanti procession in northwest Delhi's Jahangirpuri area on Saturday, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said maintaining peace is Centre's responsibility.
The riots, which went on for three days, had erupted in northeast Delhi on February 24 after clashes between citizenship law supporters and protesters spiralled.
Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat had reserved the order on Mar 3 after hearing arguments from the counsel appearing for Khalid and the prosecution.
AAP alleged that the large-scale violence in northeast Delhi was "a well-thought-out plan and a conspiracy" of the BJP, but it did not come forward to provide "any help" to the Hindus who fell victims to the riots.
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