On 5 Jan 2026, the Supreme Court of India (SC) denied bail to Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam, while granting bail to the other ...

NEW DELHI — India’s Supreme Court on Monday denied bail to two Muslim student activists who have spent years in detention without trial over a conspiracy case linked to one of the country’s deadliest ...

The Supreme Court on Monday (Jan 5) denied bail to Sharjeel Imam and Umar Khalid in the 2020 Northeast Delhi riots case but allowed bail to several others including, Gulfisha Fatima, Meeran Haider, ...

Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam and others were booked under UAPA and provisions of IPC for allegedly being the "masterminds" of ...

NEW DELHI-Amid the controversy over a handwritten letter from New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani to imprisoned student activist Umar Khalid, the latter’s father, Syed Qasim Rasool Ilyas, on January 2 ...

Umar Khalid and Zohran Mamdani embody a shared global moment: exposing state excess on one side, and dissent and solidarity on the other. In this Sep. 7, 2017, file photo, Umar Khalid speaks during a ...

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The State signals that dissent will not only be prosecuted but erased physically, socially, economically. This is governance ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s Supreme Court on Monday denied bail to two Muslim student activists who have spent years in detention without trial over a conspiracy case linked to one of the country’s ...

Qasim Rasool, father of Umar Khalid, arrives at the Supreme Court for the hearing of the bail plea of his son in New Delhi, India, Monday, Jan. 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Dinesh Joshi) Qasim Rasool, father of ...