New Delhi: A Delhi court has extended the judicial remand of former JNU scholar and activist Umar Khalid and JNU PhD student Sharjeel Imam to November 20, 2020.The Delhi Police in August arrested Sharjeel Imam in connection with the riots in the city in February. Imam had been booked under sections of the stringent Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA).The Delhi Police had arrested Khalid in the dead of the night on September 13, on the charge of conspiring to engineer communal violence in Delhi during the visit to India of US President Donald Trump earlier this year. He has also been charged with sedition and 18 other sections of the Indian Penal Code, including murder and attempt to murder.In the meantime, police have dropped their assertion that the conspiracy to trigger violence in northeast Delhi during the visit to India of US President Donald Trump was hatched in a meeting on January 8, 2020.The Delhi police had sought the extension of both the men’s judicial custody for 30 days.Khalid’s lawyer Trideep Pais and Imam’s lawyer Surabhi Dhar both argued that there was no question of the accused absconding.Pais said the judicial custody request is a copy of the police custody request, to the extent that both have the same typos.“There is absolutely no application of mind. Even typographical errors have been copied. ‘Tampering’ has become ‘tempering”, LiveLaw quoted Pais as having said.Court asks jail authorities to allow Khalid certain freedoms Khalid, who had been arrested under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, told a court on Thursday, October 22, that he was not allowed to step out of his cell and it was in a kind of “solitary confinement”.Khalid had made his submissions directly to the court through video conferencing when he was produced before it on expiry of the term of his judicial custody in the case. On September 24, the court sent Khalid to judicial custody.“I have not been allowed to step outside at all. I am alone in my cell. No one is allowed to meet me. It is practically sort of [a] solitary confinement,” Khalid had told Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat.Khalid appeared on video on Friday, October 23, as well. Judge Rawat, taking up Khalid’s complaint of yesterday, said, “There is a grievance of the accused that in the garb of providing security, you are keeping him confined to the cell. What is this?”A round of back and forth ensued between the superintendent of Tihar Jail and Khalid’s lawyer Trideep Pais on how many times Khalid was being allowed.“After I brought the grievance before the Court, I was allowed outside. The Superintendent came to meet me and himself brought me out. Before that, there were long periods when I wasn’t allowed out,” Khalid told the court, according LiveLaw.The court ultimately asked the Tihar Jail Superintendent to treat Khalid at par with other prisoners. These included providing him with books, warm clothes in view of the impending winter and time out of his cell.