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Sushil Kumar's application stated that the entire investigation was being conducted with "a pre-determined and biased mindset". It also said he was "innocent of all wrongdoings".

Police had arrested Kalra on Sunday evening from his brother-in-law’s farmhouse in Gurgaon.

Kalra's lawyer, Vineet Malhotra who opposed the remand, told the court that the application was malafide as he had himself purchased an oxygen concentrator and later got a phone call from the Delhi Police asking him to file a complaint stating that the equipment was of bad quality.

The judge said that there is enough material on record to presume that Hussain was "very well present" at the spot of crime and was exhorting the rioters of a particular community.

Five-month-old Pari is the third infant who was cremated at the Seemapuri crematorium since April this year. She was the youngest child to be buried at the crematorium where more than 2,000 cremations have taken place this year.

Additional Sessions Judge Vinod Yadav granted interim bail to accused Gulfam, who has been in judicial custody since March 16, 2020. He is an accused in a total of eight riot cases. He has been granted bail in seven cases so far.

Additional Sessions Judge Sandeep Garg dismissed Kalra’s bail plea noting that the allegations against him were serious and the possibility of him “tampering with evidence or intimidating prosecution witnesses cannot be ruled out”.

Ahmed through his lawyer MS Khan, has told the court that his experience and expertise as a medical professional would be helpful in dealing with the surge in Covid-19 cases and treatment of inmates in the central jail.

The court perused a report submitted by Shriram Institute for Industrial Research, in respect of two Oxygen concentrators seized from the premises of Kalra. The court stated that the "average output in terms of Oxygen purity is found to be 32.7 % & 38.2 %. With the laboratory room air, the Oxygen concentration was found to be merely 20.8%”

On Wednesday, Kalra's lawyer, senior advocate Vikas Pahwa, had told the court that he was made a scapegoat "so that the attention is diverted from core issues in society".

The accused were granted bail after furnishing personal bond and surety bond in sum of Rs. 50,000 each. The court will on Thursday pronounce the bail order of the fifth accused in the case, Hitesh.

Kalra's anticipatory bail application was heard by Additional Sessions Judge Sandeep Garg, who reserved the order for Thursday.

Businessman Navneet Kalra’s anticipatory bail is being heard by a sessions court while decision on Hitesh’s bal will be pronounced following some clarifications by CMM Arun Kumar Garg.

Additional Sessions Judge Kiran Gupta granted bail to Harshit Bansal, who is accused by the police of supplying two Remdesivir injections to an elderly woman after reading about it on social media.

This came after police recovered 524 concentrators from three restaurants owned by businessman Navneet Kalra — Town Hall, Khan Chacha and Nege Ju — and Matrix's warehouse in Chhatarpur.

Businessman Navneet Kalra has been accused of black-marketing oxygen concentrators in the national capital and the Delhi Police have also issued a lookout notice against him.

Setting aside the Metropolitan Magistrate’s order, the court said the "judge has to act like a selfless, dispassionate saint".

Garg joined the NGT as Registrar General, National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench), New Delhi on January 14, 2020.

Nazim's lawyer Salim Malik told the court that he had been "falsely implicated in the matter by the police just because he and his brother Kasim (who is also an accused in the instant case) are “Bad Characters” (B.C) of the Dayalpur area."

The court also said that the man could have "avoided the incident if he was innocent, but he did not make any effort to break open the door and to stop his wife."

The court observed that from the evidence gathered following statements by a number of witnesses, it is prima facie apparent that the “riotous mob” armed with “weapons” had abducted Suleman, the deceased, to kill him merely on account of the fact that he was from a different community.

Additional Sessions Judge Vinod Yadav dismissed the anticipatory bail of Siraj Ahmad observing that his presence “is very much necessary to unearth the conspiracy involved in planning, instigating and fanning the flames of communal conflagration”.

The lawyers told the court that Shahabuddin was ledged with the fellow inmate despite the latter testing positive for Covid in early April.

Shunty gets an average of 500 phone calls asking for a range of services. But mostly, Shunty has been helping people in East Delhi cremate the dead.