The Delhi High Court on Friday sought the police’s response to a bail plea filed by activist Umar Khalid in the 2020 riots conspiracy case, The Indian Express reported.Khalid has sought an interim bail on the same ground on which two other suspects – Tasleem Ahmad and Abdul Khalid Saifi – were granted six months’ interim bail by the Supreme Court on May 22, the newspaper reported.A division bench of Justices Prathiba Singh and Vikas Mahajan will hear Khalid’s bail plea on August 27 along with the regular bail plea of activist Sharjeel Imam, who has also been accused of involvement in the case.Khalid, Imam and several other activists had been arrested between January 2020 and September 2020 in connection with the communal violence that broke out in North East Delhi in February 2020 between supporters of the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act and those opposing it. The violence had left 53 dead and hundreds injured. Most of those killed were Muslims.Those accused in the matter have been charged under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act, the Arms Act and sections of the Indian Penal Code.The police have claimed that the violence was part of a larger conspiracy to defame the Narendra Modi government and was planned by those who organised the protests against the amended Citizenship Act.On July 4, a Delhi court rejected Imam and Khalid’s bail petition. Additional Sessions Judge Sameer Bajpai of Karkardooma Courts said that he was bound by the Supreme Court’s order from January that denied them bail.The Supreme Court in its January order had said that both activists can file fresh petitions after all protected witnesses are examined or after one year.However, the bench had granted bail to Gulfisha Fatima, Meeran Haider, Shifa-ur-Rehman, Shadab Ahmed and Muhammad Saleem Khan.