Delhi; 23 June 2020 (UMMN): The Delhi High Court has granted bail to Anti-CAA activist Safoora Zargar on purely “humanitarian grounds”.
27-year-old Zargar, Jamia Coordination Committee Media Coordinator is pregnant, and was arrested by the Delhi Police’s Special Cell on April 10 in a case related to communal violence in Northeast Delhi.
Justice Rajiv Shakdher ordered her release from Tihar jail and directed her to furnish a bail of Rs 10,000, and on condition that Zargar will not leave the national capital, and that in case she requires to leave the NCT of Delhi, she will seek permission of the concerned court.
According to The Indian Express, the Delhi Police in their status report filed on Monday in the High Court had opposed her bail application and had said, Zargar’s pregnancy cannot be grounds to grant her bail. Police, in its response, had submitted that as many as “39 deliveries have taken place in Delhi prisons in the last 10 years”.
Zargar’s arrest was seen as Indian government’s attempt to silence anti-CAA protests, which created a worldwide outrage and multiplebpetitions demanding her release.
