The judges issued notices to the Central government, the Delhi government and the Delhi Police before adjourning the matter until February 4, 2020
New Delhi: In the Delhi High Court two judges were heckled in court by lawyers who had filed petitions seeking a judicial probe into the violence at Jamia Millia Islamia University during protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).
The matter was being heard by a two-judges of Delhi High Court Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice C Hari Shankar. The judges issued notices to the Central government, the Delhi government and the Delhi Police before adjourning the matter until February 4, 2020.
The lawyers who had filed pleas seeking a probe into the violence at the JMI asked the bench to pass any interim directions, including for the protection of students from police action. The bench declined, which prompted the lawyers to shout ‘shame, shame’, was echoed by other lawyers in court.
The six petitions have moved by lawyers, students of JMI, residents of Okhla where the Jamia is located and the Imam of Jama Masjid mosque opposite Parliament House, had also sought medical treatment, compensation and interim protection from arrest for the students.
They had also sought appropriate action, including registration of FIRs, against the misbehaved police officers. Many public buses and two police vehicles were set ablaze in the clash between students and cops at New Friends’ Colony near JMI during an agitation against the CAA last Sunday. Students and police personnel were brutally injured in the incident.
On Thursday the Delhi High Court asked the Central government and the AAP government about the police to respond to the many PILs and adjourned the matter.
Amid a nationwide agitation against the Centre’s new citizenship law, which is meant to quickly give citizenship for non-Muslims from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh who settled in India before 2014.
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