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