The Delhi High Court on Tuesday took strong objection to lengthy arguments made by the Delhi Police while opposing the bail pleas of accused in the Delhi Riots conspiracy case..A Division Bench of Justices Navin Chawla and Shalinder Kaur for the second time in a row, rapped Special Public Prosecutor (SPP) Amit Prasad, appearing for the Delhi Police, for making lengthy submissions. “This has to end! This needs to end now. It cannot go on endlessly. We cannot give you so much time," the Court said..The SPP was reading extracts from the speeches of Sharjeel Imam when the Court interjected and asked him how much longer the arguments will go on for..Additional Solicitor General Chetan Sharma, appearing virtually, sought to make submissions before Court. To this, Justice Chawla said, "but you have already made your submissions.".The next date of hearing is February 12..On the last date of hearing, the Court had specifically asked the Delhi Police to keep its arguments short, stating that the matter is not at the stage of trial warranting lengthy arguments."How much are you going to take? This way it will not even register much with us. Give a chart. We are losing you here in between here. We just wanted to have birds-eye of the evidence you have, not that you be commenting on each and everything like this," the Court said.It called for a brief chart on the evidence to be prepared, keeping in consideration the distinction between a bail application and a final trial."Give us what you have against them... (If) we have to deal with each and everything, we will be running into 1000s of pages in bail application," Justice Chawla said.Justice Kaur elaborated on the same stating,"What is the conspiracy according to you and how the conspirators acted, that is all.".The Court was hearing the bail petitions moved by the accused including Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam, Gulfisha Fatima, Khalid Saifi and others who have been in the prison for many years. Since the trial court is yet to frame the charges against them, the accused have sought bail mainly on the ground of delay in trial.
