India, Sept. 12 -- The Supreme Court is set to hear on Friday the bail pleas of student activists Sharjeel Imam, Umar Khalid and seven others accused in the larger conspiracy case related to the 2020 Delhi riots. On September 2, a Delhi high court bench of Justices Navin Chawla and Shalinder Kaur (since retired) dismissed the bail pleas of the accused, holding that their roles in the conspiracy appeared "prima facie grave." The seven others whose pleas were rejected by the high court include student activist Gulfisha Fatima, United Against Hate founder Khalid Saifi, Athar Khan, Mohd Saleem, Shifa-ur-Rehman, Meeran Haider, and Shadab Ahmed. P4
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