India, Sept. 12 -- The Supreme Court on Friday adjourned to September 19 the hearing on the bail pleas of student activist Sharjeel Imam, former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) scholar Umar Khalid and other accused in the larger conspiracy case linked to the 2020 Delhi riots.

A bench of justices Aravind Kumar and NV Anjaria said it was unable to go through the files which arrived past midnight at their residences. The pleas were filed challenging the September 2 order of the Delhi high court denying them bail.

Deferring the matter by a week, the bench said, "We received the files in these matters at 2.30 am," referring to the case files of Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam, Gulfisha Fatima and Meeran Haider.

Senior advocate Abhishek Manu Si...