NEW DELHI, 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 Shaheen Bagh office of the proscribed Popular Front of India (PFI). 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 Fatima met at the PFI office to plan the riots. The counsel argued that Kasana's statement was concocted just before Khalid's arrest on October 1, 2020. The lawyer cited a previous Khajuri Khas FIR in which Khalid was discharged in 2022, where a court had questioned Kasana's credibility. He pointed to call detail records (CDRs) that, he said, contradict the police's version. The chargesheet claims Khalid, Fatima and Hussain met at the PFI office on January 8, 2020, but CDRs show them at different locations in Delhi. htc...