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Delhi High Court Seeks Sealed Cover Report on Investigation on Attack at Arvind Kejriwal's Residence After His Comment Mocking Kashmir Files

By Dolly Chhabda      04 April, 2022 02:00 PM      0 Comments
Delhi High Court Attack at Arvind Kejriwal Residence Kashmir Files

The Delhi High Court on Friday ordered the police to submit a status report on the investigation into the alleged attack and vandalism outside the residence of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal during a protest against his remarks on the movie The Kashmir Files.

Arvind Kejriwals stance on The Kashmir Files did not go down well with the public and he faced a lot of backlash for mocking the film The Kashmir Files. 

A Bench of Acting Chief Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Navin Chawla directed the Delhi police to explain the bandobast (security arrangement) at the Chief Ministers residence, noting that it was inadequate to control the unruly crowd that had gathered on Wednesday.

We saw the video. It is an unruly crowd. Some took law into their hands. There is element of fear sought to be created. That is evident. Police force was inadequate and was outnumbered, the Bench observed.

SIT probe sought

The court, which was hearing a petition by AAP MLA Saurabh Bhardwaj seeking the constitution of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the incident, allowed the Delhi police to submit its status report in a sealed cover.

During the hearing, the police, represented by Additional Solicitor General Sanjay Jain, said that it had taken cognizance of the incident and registered an FIR. Mr. Jain said that all the evidence, including the CCTV footage from cameras around the Chief Ministers residence, as well as the arterial roads, would be preserved.

Mr. Jain said the police was taking all steps to address the safety concerns and that eight persons had already been arrested in the case.

Mr. Bhardwaj, in his petition, alleged that the attack and vandalization appeared to have been carried out with Delhi polices tacit complicity

 



The petition has also sought directions to Delhi police and Ministry of Home Affairs for ensuring the security of the Chief Minister and his residence in future. On March 30, 2022, several BJP goons, in the garb of a protest, launched an attack on the official residence of the Delhi CM, the plea said.

Videos and photographs show that these goons casually walked through the security cordon [maintained by Delhi police], kicked and broke the boom barrier, broke the CCTVs cameras with lathis, threw paint on the gate of the residence and almost climbed over the gate, while Delhi police personnel simply looked on, doing little to stop the protesters, the plea said. 

Direct attack on democracy

In this case, the violence was especially egregious as it was directed towards the Delhi CM and his family. It was meant to subdue, by the use of force, the highest elected official in NCT of Delhi and therefore the elected government of Delhi. This was a direct attack on democracy, the plea added.

The plea said that those who were charged with protection of the Delhi CM, that is, police, completely abdicated their duty, without any regard for the fact that they were protecting an elected constitutional functionary and the fact that he was given Z+ security by the police themselves.

Mr. Bhardwaj has sought for the constitution of an SIT headed by a retired Judge to undertake an independent, fair and time-bound criminal investigation into the attack, including the role of police officers who were responsible for maintaining the security cordon outside the Chief Ministers residence.

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