Hindustan Times via Getty Images Umar Khalid addresses the audience during the Young India March, a protest march against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the Delhi Riots at Jantar Mantar on March 3, 2020. Former JNU student leader Umar Khalid was arrested on Sunday by the Delhi police for allegedly “conspiring” in the Delhi riots, which took place in the last week of February. NDTV quoted a member of the collective United Against Hate, of which Khalid is a part, as saying, “After 11 hours of interrogation, the Delhi Police Special Cell has arrested Umar Khalid as a conspirator in the Delhi Riots case. Khalid’s arrest comes after the Delhi police also named CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury, economist Jayati Ghosh and Yogendra Yadav in a supplementary chargesheet in relation to the Delhi riots. As news of Khalid’s arrest broke, people began to tweet with the hashtag #StandWithUmarKhalid.

Source: Huffington Post September 14, 2020 08:26 UTC