Delhi Police tried to detain activist Nadeem Khan without warrant in Bengaluru: Civil rights group
The police case pertained to an exhibition in Hyderabad that highlighted Supreme Court guidelines against mob lynching and punitive demolitions.
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The Delhi Police on Saturday tried to detain human rights activist Nadeem Khan in Bengaluru without a warrant, human rights group Association for Protection of Civil Rights said.
Khan is the national secretary of the group, which describes itself as an organisation dedicated to working on upholding civil liberties.
The Association for Protection of Civil Rights, or APCR, said that around 5 pm on Saturday, the station house officer of Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh police station, along 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, but merely showing him a copy of a first information report, the organisation alleged. The case was registered at Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh police station.
The FIR, seen by Scroll, pertains to an exhibition in which the Association for Protection of Civil Rights participated in Hyderabad from November 14 to November 16. The police invoked sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita pertaining to promoting enmity between groups, criminal conspiracy and public mischief.
The case was filed on November 30 based on a complaint by a police official identified as Sub-Inspector Akshay. While the first information report was filed two weeks after the exhibition, the document...
