Few understand the purgatory of jail like Khalid. This month the Delhi high court became the latest to deny the bail pleas of Khalid and his alleged co-conspirators. In the meantime he has remained detained in Delhi’s notorious Tihar jail without a conviction to his name. Khalid, a Muslim and leftwing activist, is accused of being a key conspirator in the Delhi riots in which violent religious mobs rampaged across the north-west of the city in February 2020. Photograph: Biplov Bhuyan/Hindustan Times/Rex/ShutterstockIn a mounting number of Delhi riots cases, the Delhi police have been found by judges to have fabricated evidence, created fictitious witnesses and forced witnesses to record statements dictated by officers.