Asif Iqbal Tanha

The appeal has been filed challenging the order of the Delhi HC allowing bail to 2019 Delhi riots accused in appeal filed under section 21(5) of the National Investigation Agency Act, 2008 r/w section 43(D)(5) of the UAPA.

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The Delhi High Court earlier reserved orders in Jamia Millia Islamia student, Asif Iqbal Tanha's appeal against the rejection of his bail in connection with a case related to larger conspiracy in Delhi Riots that broke out last year.

The 25-year-old was arrested on May 17 by the crime branch of Delhi Police in the Jamia rioting case. During the anti-CAA (Citizen Amendment Act) protests, violence broke out in New Friends Colony on December 15, 2019.

Asif Iqbal Tanha is facing criminal proceedings under the UAPA for his involvement in the violence that took place in northeast Delhi in February 2020.

The judge while passing the said orders said, "It is indubitably true that every accused has the fundamental right to free and fair investigation as also trial."

The trial court had also noted that there were reasonable grounds for believing that allegations against him were prima facie true.

Tanha was arrested on May 19 for allegedly being part of the premeditated conspiracy in the north-east Delhi Riots earlier this year. --