New Delhi, May 22 -- Two days after a trial court rejected former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student leader Umar Khalid's plea for interim bail in the larger conspiracy case related to the 2020 Delhi riots, he has moved the Delhi high court seeking relief.

The petition, scheduled to be heard on Friday by a bench of justices Prathiba M Singh and Madhu Jain, challenges the trial court's May 19 order refusing him 15 days' interim bail to attend the Chehlum (40th day ceremony) of his deceased uncle and visit his mother, who is scheduled to undergo surgery.

In the impugned order, additional sessions judge Sameer Bajpai of the Karkardooma courts held that the grounds cited by Khalid for seeking interim bail were not reasonable.

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