New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday (September 19) adjourned the hearing of the petitions filed by Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam, Meeran Haider, Gulfisha Fatima and Shifa Ur Rehman seeking bail in the Delhi riots larger conspiracy case till September 22 (Monday).The petitions were listed before a bench comprising Justice Aravind Kumar and Justice Manmohan, reported LiveLaw.This is the second adjournment of the hearing ever since the petition came up in the Supreme Court. Earlier, the Supreme Court on September 12 had adjourned the hearing of the petitions citing difficulty about taking up these matters as the files of the supplementary list were received only at 2.30 in the night.On September 2, the Delhi high court had dismissed the bail appeals of nine people including Khalid, Imam, Haider and Fatima. A division bench of Justice Naveen Chawla and Justice Shalinder Kaur dismissed all appeals.The other petitioners in the appeal that was dismissed included Athar Khan, Khalid Saifi, Mohammad Saleem Khan, Shifa ur Rehman, and Shadab Ahmed. All the accused had been arrested in the first nine months of 2020.The activists had appealed against the rejection of their bail by trial courts.These activists’ time in jail have been marked by multiple appeals and subsequent postponements and rejections by courts, in what rights defenders worldwide have decried as a travesty of justice.On the same day, a separate bench of the Delhi high court, comprising Justice Subramonium Prasad and Justice Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar also denied bail to co-accused Tasleem Ahmed.The highly controversial FIR 59/2020 was registered by Delhi Police’s Special Cell under various offences under the Indian Penal Code and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. Questions continue to hover over the Delhi police’s partisan role in investigating the violence.Much of the Delhi police’s case rests on activists’ presence or participation in WhatsApp groups during the time of the nationwide Citizenship Amendment Act.