The court imposed some conditions on Sharma, one of which was that he shall neither leave the jurisdiction of NCT of Delhi without prior permission of the court nor shall he indulge in any kind of criminal activity.

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Kabul [Afghanistan], January 19 (ANI): The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) distributed aid to 800 vulnerable and needy Afghan families including food, medical supplies and winter supplies.

New Delhi Nov 29 PTI Advocacy against the law like the Citizenship Amendment Act CAA is not a crime former JNU student leader Umar Khalid told a Delhi court on Monday asserting that the police pressured the witnesses to give statements in the riots conspiracy case Senior advocate Trideep Pais appearing for Khalid also told the court that one of the protected witnesses had informed a police officer about the purported plans of the riots beforehand and asked why they took place if the police knew about itThe lawyer made the remarks during the hearing in a case related to the communal violence that had broken out in northeast Delhi on February 24 2020 after clashes between the Citizenship Amendment Act CAA supporters and its protesters spiralled out of control Arguing for Khalids bail before Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat Pais read out the statements of four protected witnesses and claimed that they were written by the police and given to the witnesses to endorse In the last hearing he had read the statements of two other witnesses and alleged that they were cooked up Today he referred to one of the police allegations regarding an alleged secret meeting in Delhis Seelampur area on January 23 and 24 2020 in which Khalid had allegedly directed that the protests be escalated to riots and result in the spilling of blood of policemen and others For the Seelampur meeting you prosection have six witnesses One witness absolutely has nothing on me Another witness had nothing on me in the police statement but introduced a provocative speech in a statement before the magistrate he told the court The lawyer added A third witness is a person who was miraculously in touch with the police since January and kept the SHO informed at every level but does nothing about it One other witness is the only person who says there was a secret office and not a meeting No witness calls it a secret meeting These statements without any doubt are procured Pais told the court that a witness met the station house officer SHO in January 2020 and that the officer knew everything about the riots plan beforehandHe says that I was regularly in touch with SHO who asked me to keep him updated So Seelampur SHO knew everything How did we have riots in the city This brilliant intelligence he had about this and he did not register an FIR If you are in touch with the SHO then why did you not ensure that nothing went on he askedBesides this the lawyer said that another witness did not speak of the alleged secret meeting in the statement given to the police but seven days later the witness miraculously mentioned it in a statement given before a magistrateObviously the statement did not suit the police and they could not go back and change it so they ensured that the witness goes to the magistrate and say this Remember one thing advocacy against a law is not a crime he said referring to the opposition to the CAA To show more contradictions in the statement the lawyer said that in one of the statements the witness claimed that co-accused Gulfisha asked women and children to carry chilly powder and acid to protest on Khalids directions but in another statement they claimed that Gulfisha herself asked them to carry itWhy would you believe this witness The witness has clearly been pressured to give statements he asserted The lawyer said even though the witness did not claim to be present in the meeting it still gave granular details and claimed that JNU student Natasha Narwal was present there but her Call Data Record CDR showed otherwiseHe further said that one other witness did not speak about the alleged secret meeting or Khalid in his statement to the police on April 16 but suddenly recalled that the accused gave a provocative speech in a statement before the magistrate on April 24 The lawyer said that the fourth witness did not speak about the meeting at allDelhi Police have given imaginary names to the witnesses such as Echo Delta Gamma and Yanky Sierra and Smith to protect their identity In the last hearing Khalid told the court that statements of the witnesses in the case were written by someone else and given to them as police did not have any evidence Umar Khalid and several others have been booked under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act UAPA a stringent anti-terror law and are accused of being the masterminds of the February 2020 riots in the national capital which had left 53 people dead and over 700 injured PTI AAK RKS RKS

Kabul [Afghanistan], November 21 (ANI): The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in its latest report said that more than three million Afghan children are struggling with malnutrition and that if their situation is not considered, over one million of them will be at risk of dying.