Happy but don’t expect police to file FIR, says man who secured court order against Kapil Mishra

Mohammad Ilyas has been experiencing mixed emotions after a Delhi court acted on his five-year old plea asking for an first information report to be filed against Bharatiya Janata Party leader and Delhi Law Minister Kapil Mishra for his alleged involvement in the 2020 Delhi riots.

“I’m happy and relieved with the order,” the 57-year-old resident of Yamuna Vihar in North East Delhi told Scroll. “Till a few days back, I was afraid that the court would reject my application and there would be no FIR.”

But Ilyas’ happiness is tempered by the fact that does not think the Delhi Police will actually act on the order. His lawyer Mehmood Pracha has told him that the Delhi police will see a stay on the order from a higher court.

“The police will try to delay this,” he said. “If they wanted to reign in the actual rioters, then my FIR would have been registered in 2020 itself.”

He said that since the order was pronounced on Tuesday, he had not been contacted by the police about registering the first information report.

No first information reports have been filed against Mishra for his alleged role in the 2020 Delhi Riots.

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