India, July 31 -- The Delhi high court on Friday issued notice on former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) scholar Umar Khalid's petition seeking bail in the 2020 Delhi riots conspiracy case.

A bench of Justices Prathiba M Singh and Vikas Mahajan asked additional solicitor general SV Raju and advocate Dhruv Pande, representing the Delhi Police, to file a response to the petition against a trial court's May 4 order denying Khalid bail.

Khalid sought interim bail citing the Supreme Court's May 22 decision referring to the Chief Justice of India the larger question of how its landmark three-judge ruling in Union of India versus KA Najeeb (2021) ought to be applied in Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) cases involving prolonged inc...