Delhi court stays FIR against police officer accused of hate crime in 2020 riots
The order was passed without notice to the complainant or his lawyer, who discovered it on Monday evening while checking the case status.
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A Delhi court has stayed an order directing the registration of a first information report against the station house officer of Jyoti Nagar police station in North East Delhi, for allegedly assaulting Muslim men and forcing them to sing the national anthem and Vande Mataram during communal riots in the capital in 2020.
On February 1, Additional Sessions Judge Sameer Bajpai of the Karkardooma court placed an interim stay on the January 18 order of Judicial Magistrate Udbhav Kumar Jain, which had directed police to file an FIR against Salender Tomar, the station house officer, under Indian Penal Code sections pertaining to deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings (295A), voluntarily causing hurt (323), wrongful confinement (342) and criminal intimidation (506).
Bajpai was hearing Tomar’s revision plea.
The order was passed without notice to the complainant, Mohd Waseem, or his lawyer, Mehmood Pracha, who discovered it on Monday evening while checking the case status online.
“The order came as a great surprise to us,” Pracha told Scroll. “The court should have heard us before passing its order.”
Waseem had filed an application for the registration of an FIR against Tomar before the magistrate’s court in 2020.
Waseem, who was a minor at the time, had alleged that on February 24, 2020, he was...
