Delhi: Standard of probe in many cases ‘very poor’, says court

A resident walks past a burnt-out building in a residential area, in New Delhi in March 2020. Pic/AFP

A court in Delhi has said that the standard of investigation in a large number of 2020 northeast riots cases is "very poor", and sought the intervention of the police commissioner.

Additional Sessions Judge Vinod Yadav made the observations while framing charges against one Ashraf Ali for allegedly attacking police officials with acid, glass bottles and bricks during the communal violence on February 25, 2020.

"It is painful to note that in a large number of cases of riots, the standard of investigation is very poor," he said, adding that in a majority of cases investigating officers (IOs) have not been appearing in court.

Furthermore, he said the police hardly bother about taking the investigation to a logical end after filing half-baked charge sheets, due to which the accused, who have been named in multiple cases, continue to languish in jails.

"This case is a glaring example, wherein victims are police personnel itself, yet the IO did not bother to collect the sample of acid and to have its chemical analysis. The IO has further not bothered to collect the opinion about the nature of injuries," he noted in an order dated August 28.

2020
Year the riots took place in northeast Delhi

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