Delhi Riots Cases: Judges’ New Postings Mean Bail Pleas to Be Heard Afresh, Third Time
Sohini Ghosh | 26 September 2024 | The Indian Express
The Delhi High Court is set to hear afresh the bail pleas of four accused in the 2020 Northeast Delhi riots for the third time in just over two years.
Filed separately beginning March 2022, the bail pleas of Abdul Khalid Saifi, Gulfisha Fatima, Md Saleem Khan and Shifa Ur Rehman have been argued fully by their lawyers twice before two different benches. With both the benches, the presiding Judge was appointed as Chief Justice of another HC, and no verdict was delivered. With Justice Suresh Kumar Kait, who headed the bench that last heard the case, taking oath as Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh HC on Wednesday, the case will have to be heard de novo (from the beginning) before a new bench…