Families of Imprisoned Anti-CAA Activists Question Selective Use of 'Bail is the Rule' Principle
Sravasti Dasgupta | 18 September 2024 | The Wire
As former JNU student leader Umar Khalid completed four years in jail this month, his family along with those of other activists who participated in the CAA-NRC protests and were imprisoned following the 2020 Delhi riots, came together demanding their immediate release while highlighting the selective application of “bail is rule, jail is the exception” principle in granting bail despite recent pronouncements by the Supreme Court.
“It is said that any democratic society has three pillars – the executive, the legislature and the judiciary. And these should be separate. But if the Chief Justice of India invites the prime minister to his house (for a puja) and that is made viral, do I have any hope of getting justice?” said Khalid’s father S.Q.R Ilyas while speaking at a public meeting organised by the Association for Protection of Civil Rights (APCR) in New Delhi…