The three students were arrested in May under the Actity (Prevention) of the Law (UPA) activities in connection with cases related to the big conspiracy in the Northeast Delhi Riot broke out in February last year.
The Delhi court on Thursday finally graduated from the release order for Jawaharlal Nehru (JNU) students Natasha Narwal and Devangana Kalita, and Jamia Millia Syplisia Mahasa Asif Iqbal Tanha after the three students moved the court to release from prison, two days after the trio. Given guarantees by the Delhi High Court in connection with the Riot Case of Northeast Delhi. The students urged their requests for immediate release from prison, showing that more than 36 hours had passed since they were given a guarantee in court.
Bench High Court Delhi consisting of Judge Siddharth Mridul and Aj Bhambhani began to hear about the request today and issued direction for trial courts on the release of the three students – Devangana Kalita, Natasha Narwal, and Asif Iqbal Tanha. Additional Judge Ravindra Bedi said that he had passed the order release at 11am as scheduled even when all parties said they were not aware of orders. Detailed orders awaited.
In the order of guarantees two days ago, the Delhi High Court has noted that the accusations submitted to students are not prime facie revealing any violation commission under the section of the UPA. Thus, additional restrictions on guarantees do not apply, the court ruled. The Delhi High Court also notes that the line between terrorist activity and the right is guaranteed to be constitutionally to protest “somewhat blurring” in the country’s minds, “in his anxiety to suppress differences of opinion”.
The three students were arrested in May under the Actity (Prevention) of the Law (UPA) activities in connection with cases related to the big conspiracy in the Northeast Delhi Riot broke out in February last year.
Narwal, who is a student who pursues the MPHIL-PhD program at the Center for History of Women at the University of Jawaharlal Nehru, and Devangana Kalita, who pursues the MPHIL-PhD program in the Women’s Study Department in JNU, was taken to police custody. On May 29, 2020. Iqbal Tanha, a 25-year-old student, pursued the last year of BA (Hons) Persian program at the University of Jamia Milia Islamia was arrested in the case of the same UPA on May 19 last year who was being examined by Delhi Police Special Cells.
Communal clashes have broken in Northeast Delhi on February 24 last year after violence among legal supporters of citizenship and rotating protesters out of control, leaving at least 53 people dead and around 200 injured.
