New Delhi, Sept. 13 -- The Supreme Court on Friday adjourned by a week the hearing on bail pleas filed by 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 could not go through the voluminous case files, which reached their residences after midnight.

"We received the files in these matters at 2.30am," the bench observed, referring to the case files of Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam, Gulfisha Fatima and Meeran Haider, and posted the hearing to September 19. The bail petitions have challenged a September 2 order of the Delhi high court, denying them bail.

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