The pinnacle court ordered for enquiry into Delhi violence on Hanuman Jayanti festival on Saturday
18-04-2022
Delhi Jahangirpuri violence on Hanuman Jayanti: a minimum of 23 people are arrested by the police to date within the violence.
After communal fights were reported in Delhi's Jahangirpuri on Hanuman Jayanti, a letter petition has been filed within the top court, requesting “an impartial enquiry” by a panel headed by a sitting judge.
So many persons were left injured due to the area within the northwestern part of the city on Saturday witnessed violence after stones were allegedly thrown during a Hanuman Jayanti procession. This was the primary time since February 2020 that the city saw clashes between two groups at this scale.
“The recent riots which erupted in Jahangirpuri area within the north-west Delhi are a scar on the face of the constitution. This is often the second time that riots have erupted in Delhi in the last 2 years, and in both clashes, persons from the minority community are only to be blamed,” reads the letter by lawyer Amritpal Singh Khalsa to judge NV Ramana.
The Delhi cops work “so far, has been completely biased, communal”, the petitioner has alleged, saying that 7 persons were charged at the start of inquiry, and every one of them were from the same religion.
“The role of (the) Delhi Police in 2020 riots have belittled them and have weakened the religion of the people in them. With this letter, I beseech your lordship’s attention in exercising epistolary jurisdiction, thereby constituting a committee headed by sitting judge of this court, to conduct impartial probe into (the) Jahangirpuri riots”
24 citizens are arrested thus far within the case. The Delhi Cops have not yet reacted to the claims.
The fresh spell of violence within the National Capital territory comes as different other states witnessed communal fights recently.
States of West Bengal, Gujarat, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh were among the states that reported such communal fights during the Ram Navami processions recently.
