India, Oct. 9 -- Student activist Umar Khalid on Wednesday alleged before a Delhi court that the police coached a false witness days before his arrest in the Delhi riots larger conspiracy case, who said that the JNU scholar attended a "conspiratorial meeting" at the Popular Front of India's (PFI) office in Shaheen Bagh.

The allegation was made during arguments on the framing of charges before additional sessions judge Sameer Bajpai at the Karkardooma Courts.

Senior advocate Trideep Pais, appearing for Khalid, told the court that the police relied on a fabricated statement by Rahul Kasana, the driver of co-accused and former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain. Kasana allegedly told investigators that Khalid, Hussain and MBBS student Gulfisha F...