India, May 22 -- The Delhi High Court has granted interim bail to activist and former Jawaharlal Nehru University student leader Umar Khalid from June 1 to June 3 in the 2020 northeast Delhi riots larger conspiracy case, in view of his mother's surgery.

Umar Khalid had moved the high court seeking 15 days of interim bail from May 22 to June 5 after a trial court on May 19 rejected his plea for temporary release. He had sought bail to attend the Chehlum ceremony of his deceased maternal uncle and to care for his 62-year-old mother, who is scheduled to undergo lump excision surgery on June 2.

In his appeal, Khalid argued that the trial court's observations that his uncle was not an "immediate relation" and that other family members could ...