On 10th April, during the bail hearing of anti-Hindu Delhi Riots accused Umar Khalid in Karkardooma Court, Delhi, the public prosecutor said a false narrative is being set in media and on social media to influence the judiciary
During the hearing, Prasad played a specific interview in open court. The interview was of Umar Khalid's father, SQR Ilyas, with TheWire's Arfa Khanum Sherwani.
The prosecution played an interview of Umar Khalid's father with The Wire's Arfa Kanum Sherwani to show how he was lying and creating a false narrative.
During anti-CAA protests, Umar Khalid spoke at a meeting organised by his father Syed Qasim Rasool Ilyas's party Welfare Party of India where he allegedly told Bangladeshis to protest against CAA.
Defense Counsel Trideep Pais mentioned the WhatsApp chat that Umar Khalid had with actor Sushant Singh a few months after the riots took place in the Capital in February 2020