Activist Nadeem Khan, booked for ‘promoting enmity’, gets interim protection from arrest
The bench noted that the material on which the complainant’s allegations were based had not been placed before it for examination.
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The Delhi High Court on Tuesday granted interim protection from arrest to human rights activist Nadeem Khan, Live Law reported.
The Delhi Police has charged Khan, the national secretary of the Association for Protection of Civil Rights, with promoting enmity between groups and criminal conspiracy based on a widely shared video.
Khan’s organisation describes itself as working to uphold civil liberties.
Justice Jasmeet Singh ordered that Khan not be arrested until Friday. The court also directed Khan to join the police investigation on Wednesday and not to leave Delhi without the investigating officer’s permission, reported LiveLaw.
The Delhi Police on Saturday tried to detain Khan in Bengaluru without an arrest warrant, according to the Association for Protection of Civil Rights. Khan subsequently moved the High Court seeking to quash the first information report against him, which was registered at Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh Police Station.
The Association for Protection of Civil Rights said that around 5 pm on Saturday, the station house officer of Shaheen Bagh Police Station, with four other officials, arrived at the home of Khan’s brother in Bengaluru.
The officials asked Khan to “voluntarily” accompany them to Delhi for questioning, without producing a warrant or notice and by merely showing him a copy of the FIR, the organisation alleged.
The FIR, seen by Scroll, pertains to an event...
