Ab yeh sach hae !! Judge the case by Legal merits ::: Where is the scope of emotional poetry ... Life is not Bollywood .... ::: Accused of conspiracy of riot and denied bail - Umar Khalid should prepare to face life and law ... do not play victim card

Victim card is the oldest card ... of Left liberals and Sickularism.

No need or no scope of poetry ... please remember -- as you sow .. so shall you reap.  If he realises 

"Ab yeh hi Zindagi hae". He and his partner also ought to realise that Mayor New York cannot do anything about Indian law or criminal system.

Riot Masterminds denied bail by Supreme Court .... 

Denying bail to Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam, the Supreme Court said national security and public order trump prolonged pre-trial custody. 

The bench, however, granted bail to Gulfisha Fatima, Meeran Haider, Shifa Ur Rehman, Mohd Saleem Khan and Shadab Ahmed.  

Umar Khalid's partner Banojyotsna Lahiri shared a brief exchange with him on social media platform X.

In her post, Lahiri quoted Khalid. 

Ms Lahiri wrote that she would visit him the next day for a ‘mulaqat’. Khalid reportedly replied, 

“Good, good, aa jana. Ab yahi zindagi hai".

As expected such tweets easily go viral and more with Sickular elements/army in Social media and the eco system. 

But the merits of the case is somewhere else in the details.

Hence these well-phrased tweet is also part of a plan - giving the colour of emotional etc etc.  

Look where things stand legal point of view and no victim-hood of minorities or messages from New York or calculated poetry. 

One; dismissing the bail pleas of Khalid and Imam, the court said the prosecution had placed sufficient material on record to establish a prima facie case indicating their involvement in the alleged criminal conspiracy.  

"This court is satisfied that the prosecution material discloses a prima facie allegation against the appellants Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam. 

The statutory threshold stands attracted qua these appellants. At this stage of the proceedings, their enlargement on bail is not justified," the bench observed categorically.  

The court also said --  "Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam stand on a qualitatively different footing from the remaining accused, both in prosecution narrative and in evidentiary basis relied upon. 

This structural distinction cannot be ignored and must inform any judicial determination relating to culpability, parity, or the applicability of penal provisions requiring a heightened threshold of intent and participation".  

Now as a result of today's developments in the court - Delhi police too might have heaved a sigh of relief in some ways. 

"Supreme Court had accepted the core argument that Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam were the masterminds of the conspiracy, pointing to their speeches and actions as central to the prosecution narrative," said Additional Solicitor General S V Raju, the lead prosecution counsel for the Delhi Police. 

Raju also said: "Khalid had made provocative statements, including slogans such as "Bharat tere tukde honge", which, according to the prosecution, demonstrated intent and incitement". 

(We do not say Ms Lahiri's tweet should also mention these. But the media should not be deflected from the basic case)

 

On international criticism of the case, Raju said some US lawmakers and even the New York Mayor appeared to be “misguided” in their understanding of the proceedings.

He stressed that the Indian legal system cannot be viewed through the prism of American law.

"Law in India does not work the way it does in the United States. India treats terrorist acts and terror-linked conspiracies with the utmost seriousness while ensuring due process," he added.

The verdict followed the Supreme Court's decision on December 10 to reserve judgment on the accused persons' appeals against the Delhi High Court's September 2 order, which had declined to grant bail in the conspiracy case linked to the northeast Delhi violence.

playing victim card 

Umar Khalid's bail pleas have been rejected on at least five separate occasions in different courts over the past five years. 

He was granted two short outings in 2024 and 2025 to attend weddings in his family. Imam's bail pleas have been rejected at least twice before. 

The 'conspiracy angle' has international connotation. 

On Dec 13, 2019, Sharjeel Imam's alleged "inflammatory hate speech" in effect called on Muslims in India to cut off Assam from India by choking the 'Chicken's Neck'. The same noise is now coming from across the border in Bangladesh ... after six years in 2025-26. 

The mayor in New York should focus on his job and not interfere in the matters of India. 

Ab yeh sach hae !!

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