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New Delhi: The Delhi high court on Friday deferred hearing till May 6 on former Jawaharlal Nehru University student Umar Khalid's bail plea in an Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act case concerning alleged conspiracy behind the riots in Delhi in February 2020 in view of the upcoming hearing before the Supreme Court on the constitutional validity of the law of sedition and sought the Delhi police's stand on Sharjeel Imam's bail application in the same case. A bench headed by Justice Siddharth Mridul issued notice on Imam's challenge to the rejection of his bail plea by the trial court and listed it for further hearing alongside Khalid's petition on the date after the top court considers the issue of the validity of section 124A (sedition) of IPC on May 5. Senior counsel Trideep Pais appearing for Khalid submitted that the Supreme Court was 'not likely to conclude' on that day and the present bail proceedings were not limited to just section 124A but concerned provisions of the UAPA. "Anything that may have a bearing, however remote, we should wait (for it). Like you said, the outcome is going to be seminal," said the bench also comprising Justice Rajnish Bhatnagar. The court further observed that Imam, also a former JNU student, and Khalid were stated to be 'co-conspirators' in the case and it would thus hear both the two bail applications together. Advocate Tanveer Ahmed Mir, appearing for Imam, emphasised that dehors the Supreme Court hearing on the issue of sedition, his plea was for the purposes of bail. "If we have to hear the co-accused, we might as well do it in one go," the court said. The court also listed for hearing on May 6 another bail plea by Imam in a separate case for alleged inflammatory speeches made by him dur ...