The supplementary chargesheet was filed two days earlier than the parliament session begins (File)
New Delhi:
The Delhi Police have introduced the felony justice system to “ridicule” by mentioning the names of CPIM chief Sitaram Yechury, Swaraj Abhiyan’s Yogendra Yadav and different students in a disclosure assertion of an accused, hooked up to the February riots supplementary chargesheet, Congress chief P Chidambaram stated on Sunday.
“Has the Delhi Police forgotten that between Info and Cost Sheet there are vital steps referred to as Investigation and Corroboration?” Mr Chidambaram, a former union residence minister, tweeted.
“Delhi Police have introduced the felony justice system to ridicule by naming Mr Sitaram Yechury and lots of different students and activists in a supplementary cost sheet within the Delhi riots case,” he added.
Delhi Police have introduced the felony justice system to ridicule by naming Mr Sitaram Yechury and lots of different students and activists in a supplementary cost sheet within the Delhi riots case
— P. Chidambaram (@PChidambaram_IN) September 13, 2020
The opposite folks named within the disclosure assertion embody economist Jayati Ghosh, Delhi College professor Apoorvanand and documentary filmmaker Rahul Roy.
The Delhi Police on Saturday clarified that they haven’t been named as an accused.
“It’s value mentioning that the disclosure assertion has been in truth recorded as narrated by the accused. An individual isn’t arraigned as an accused solely on the premise of a disclosure assertion. Nevertheless, it is just on the existence of adequate corroborative proof that additional authorized motion is taken. The matter is at the moment in court docket,” the Delhi Police stated in an announcement on Saturday.
The supplementary chargesheet was filed two days earlier than the primary a part of the monsoon session of parliament begins. Congress chief Jairam Ramesh has stated his occasion will increase the difficulty within the two Homes.
Over 50 folks had been killed and lots of injured, many with gunshot wounds, within the violence in north-east Delhi in February, after weeks of protests towards the CAA and the Nationwide Register or Residents or NRC.
Mr Yechury, a veteran parliamentarian, referred to as the police actions “illegitimate, unlawful”.
“Delhi Police is beneath the Centre and Dwelling Ministry. Its illegitimate, unlawful actions are a direct consequence of the politics of BJP’s prime management. They’re fearful of official peaceable protests by mainstream political events & are misusing state energy to focus on the Opposition,” Mr Yechury stated in a sequence of tweets yesterday.
Mr Yechury’s occasion additionally condemned the police over the chargesheet.
“The CPI(M) condemns this obnoxious motion by the Delhi Police to additional the narrative of its political masters and urges the federal government to desist from such acts of criminalising peaceable political protests,” the Communist Occasion of India (Marxist) Politburo stated in an announcement at the moment.
