D.J. Halli violence: HC refuses bail to SDPI president

Imran Ahmed, president of Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI), K.G. Halli ward, who was arrested in August 2021, is accused of rioting and arson in front of K.G. Halli police station and setting some parked vehicles on fire using petrol

The High Court of Karnataka has refused to grant bail to Imran Ahmed, president of Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI), K.G. Halli ward, in one of the cases taken up by the National Investigating Agency (NIA) into the large-scale violence in D.J. Halli-K.G. Halli localities in Bengaluru on August 11, 2020.

“The acts committed by the accused along with other accused persons on August 11, 2020, as stated in the charge sheet, discloses the conspiracy to commit acts of violence, destruction of public properties, and to create a fear psychosis in the mind of law-abiding citizens… By his activity, the accused has attempted to create fear and panic amongst the public in general,” the court observed.