2020 riots: Pleas for FIRs against leaders rejected
New Delhi, Oct. 6 -- The Delhi High Court on Monday dismissed petitions seeking a SIT probe into the 2019 clashes at Jamia Millia Islamia University during protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act, including allegations of police excesses, arbitrary use of force, and action by police personnel.
A bench of Justices Vivek Chaudhary and Manoj Jain observed that the police had not entered the university premises at the outset to deal with an otherwise peaceful assembly confined to the campus.
The court said the police entered only after the situation outside and around the university had escalated and the crowd had moved into the campus.
The police intervention, therefore, has to be viewed in the "prevailing" law-and-order situation whic...
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