New Delhi/IBNS, July 1 -- Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has questioned the continued incarceration of former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student leader Umar Khalid, asking why the allegations against him have not yet been tested in court despite nearly six years in prison.

Tharoor described the prolonged detention without trial as "a travesty of justice and a blot on our democracy", reigniting debate over one of the country's most closely watched legal cases.

His remarks came after the British newspaper The Guardian published Khalid's first interview since his arrest in 2020 in connection with the larger conspiracy case linked to the 2020 Delhi riots.

Sharing The Guardian interview on X, Tharoor asked why the prosecution had not yet...