Important cases heard in Delhi High Court on Thursday

    Important cases heard in the Delhi High Court on Thursday, February 20:
    
     *Activist Umar Khalid argued in HC that his mere presence in WhatsApp groups was not enough to attribute any criminality to him and the police equated staging protests and attending meetings with terror.
    
     *HC said it was "compulsory and unquestionable" to give grounds of arrest in writing irrespective of the law and quashed the arrests of self-styled army chief of the proscribed separatist organisation United National Liberation Front (UNLF) Thokchom Shyamjai Singh and others.
    
     *HC disposed of a plea against the bail granted to former Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case after being informed he was convicted in it.
    
     *HC refused to quash a 2016 FIR against MP Swati Maliwal for allegedly disclosing the identity of a 14-year-old Dalit rape victim who had succumbed to injuries.
    
     *HC held that harbouring terrorists leads to creation of 'safe havens' for them and endangers the safety of citizens and those who harbour these persons provide them a 'veil of secrecy' by temporarily integrating into the society.

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