India, Sept. 15 -- Umar Khalid, the Jawaharlal Nehru University scholar who has spent more than five years in jail, on Thursday, September 11, told a Delhi court that the larger Conspiracy case in connection with the 2020 North East Delhi riots is purely based on fabricated evidence.

Opposing the framing of charges against Umar Khalid, who was arrested by the Delhi police on September 13, 2020, Senior Advocate Trideep Pais submitted before Additional Sessions Judge Sameer Bajpai that the FIR 59 of 2020 investigated by the Delhi police's special cell does not have the sanctity of law, let alone the seriousness of offences as alleged by the Delhi police. If the charge of conspiracy was genuine, it would have had some connection to other of...