Delhi Court Rejects Umar Khalid's Plea Seeking Permission To Meet Family During Police Custody [Read Order]

While rejecting the plea, Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat noted that the accused is already allowed to have meetings with his legal counsel.

The court further observed that while remanding him to police custody, the court had also taken into consideration his security concerns and had directed the Deputy Commissioner of Police to ensure his safety in police custody.

On September 14, the court had remanded Khalid to 10 days police custody in connection with accusations against him for allegedly instigating Delhi riots.

Khalid had moved the present application to seek meeting with his family members for at least 30 minutes every day.

The prosecution challenged this application by arguing that there's no provision in the Criminal Procedure Code to allow family meetings to the accused during police custody.

'Accused is only allowed family meetings when he is in judicial custody, and that too, as per Prison Rules', prosecution argued.

The prosecution further argued that the accused is being confronted with huge data on a regular basis and he is not cooperating with the investigation.

While rejecting the plea the court noted that:

'The Counsel for the accused had made specific request for allowing the meeting time of accused with the Counsel during police custody remand and the same was allowed for every day for 30 minutes during the entire PC remand. Ld. Counsel for the accused is meeting the accused every day during the remand in terms of the order dated 14.09.2020. There was also an apprehension of safety raised by the Ld. Counsel for the accused and thus a specific direction was also given to the concerned DCP to ensure the safety of the accused. The police custody remand of accused is going to get over as he will be produced on 24.09.2020.'

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