Delhi Riots: HC Stays Rs 25,000 Costs on Police, Refuses to Interfere With Trial Court Order
Additional Sessions Judge Vinod Yadav had pulled up the police and said that its investigation had been casual, callous, and farcical.
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New Delhi: The Delhi high court on Wednesday, July 28, stayed the imposition of Rs 25,000 costs on the police in a case related to north-east Delhi riots but refused to interfere with the trial court’s strictures against its investigation at this stage.
“We can’t expunge the remarks without hearing you (Police). Costs may not be deposited till the next date of hearing,” said Justice Subramonium Prasad who was hearing Delhi Police’s challenge to a trial court order calling its investigation into the case callous and farcical, and imposing Rs 25,000 costs.
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NEW DELHI: A city court here has come down heavily on Delhi Police for “miserably” failing in conducting a fair investigation on a complaint filed by a man who had received a gunshot injury in his eye during the north-east Delhi riots in February last year.
It has imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 on the cops.
The court was hearing a revision petition filed by the police against a magistrate court’s order of October 21, 2020, directing them to file a separate FIR on the complaint of Mohammad Nasir, a riot victim. Additional sessions judge Vinod Yadav also lifted the stay on the magistrate court’s order and paved the way for registration of a separate FIR on the complaint.
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