Delhi Police Says 39 Deliveries in Tihar Jail in 10 Years, Safoora Zargar Can't be Special Case and Opposes Bail

Stating that 39 deliveries have taken place in Delhi's Tihar Jail in the last 10 years, Delhi Police have maintained that pregnancy is no ground to give bail to Jamia Coordination Committee member Safoora Zargar.

Zargar was arrested on April 10 in a case related to communal violence in northeast Delhi in February during protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act.

Charges under anti-terror law, UAPA, have been invoked against the Jamia Millia Islamia M.Phil student who is more than four months pregnant.

Submitting its status report in the Delhi High Court, Delhi Police maintained that her pregnancy does not dilute the gravity of her alleged crime and that she is being given adequate medical care in the jail.

"There is no special case cut out for pregnant detainee, who is blamed for such intolerable wrongdoing, to be discharged on bail just on account of pregnancy. Unexpectedly, the law accommodates satisfactory shields and clinical consideration during their care in prison," expressed the report submitted in the court by Delhi Police. 

It included there have been sufficient points of reference to show capture and detainment of pregnant ladies as well as their conveyances in correctional facilities, for which rules have been spread out in law as per the Supreme Court's headings. 

"It is consciously presented that till date 39 conveyances have occurred in Delhi jail in most recent 10 years," said the report, adding Zargar isn't qualified for any



"special treatment" when the law itself allows such sort of authorizations against a specific class of wrongdoers. 

The report by Special Cell DCP PS Kushwaha expressed that "the very reality of raising of life should have been a keep an eye on exercises (by Zargar) which could cause, and which did in truth cause huge scope pulverization of life and properties".

Delhi Police said that Zargar is lodged in a separate cell, all alone, and is being attended to regularly by doctors, apart from being given a good diet and required medicines.

"In fact, more care and caution are being practised in jail so far as social distancing norms are concerned that would be available to her outside the jail premises," said the report, strongly resisting her release on bail.

About the FIR in question, the report said that there are enough electronic and other evidence to demonstrate Zargar's role and her complicity in a "sinister design" to create unrest by flaring up communal tension with the ultimate objective of uprooting a democratically elected government by using violent and illegal means.

She gave provocative speeches, appealed for sit-in protesters and other kinds of demonstrations to promote the feeling of enmity, hatred and ill-will among different communities to cause disharmony and pressurise the Central government to withdraw CAA and NRC.

Zargar's bail plea was earlier dismissed by a trial court on June 4, compelling her to move the High Court.