In the Supreme Court of India Gulfisha Fatima v. State (NCT of Delhi) Decided 5 January 2026

FIR 59of 2020

What happened, when. The Delhi riots "larger conspiracy" case as the Supreme Court's judgment records it — from a WhatsApp group in December 2019 to seven bail appeals decided six years later. events, one card at a time, each citing a paragraph of the judgment.

on the record the prosecution says — an allegation, not a finding the riots bail granted bail refused

Source

Gulfisha Fatima v. State (Govt. of NCT of Delhi), Criminal Appeals arising out of SLP (Crl.) Nos. 13988, 14030, 14132, 14165, 14859, 15335 and 17055 of 2025, 2026 INSC 2, 142 pp., Aravind Kumar and N.V. Anjaria, JJ. PDF on sci.gov.in. Paragraph numbers (¶) are the judgment's own; nothing here comes from any other source.

Hollow dots are the charge-sheet as the Court reproduces it — the role attributed to each appellant, taken "at face value" because the bail statute requires it (¶48), and expressly not endorsed (¶438). Solid dots are dated facts of the case. Where the judgment disagrees with itself — the riot dates, Sharjeel Imam's arrest date — both readings are shown.

Portraits: Umar Khalid by Payasam (Mukul Dube), 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0; Sharjeel Imam, video still by NYOOOZ, 2020, CC BY 3.0; both via Wikimedia Commons, cropped and converted to black and white. No freely licensed photograph of the other five exists; they appear as initials.

Figures: the custody swimlane, days-in-custody bars and the day-by-day allegation matrix, each with a table view. Type: Fraunces, Newsreader, IBM Plex Mono. Motion and the background scenes: anime.js 4.5, vendored. Portraits rendered as pencil sketches by sketch.py.