[Jamia Violence 2019] Delhi High Court seeks reply from Police on plea for SIT inquiry
The division bench was hearing a batch of petitions seeking actions against the Delhi police for the violence and raising concerns about the use of excessive physical force against protesters.
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday sought reply from the Delhi Police on an application seeking an independent inquiry and constitution of a Special Investigation (SIT) in connection with the Jamia Milia Islamia (JMI) University violence 2019 case.
A division bench of Justice Siddharth Mridul and Justice Talwant Singh listed the matter for December 15 for further hearing.
On October 28, a division bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad transferred a batch of petitions pertaining to JMI University violence of 2019 that took place during the Anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protests to the bench headed by Justice Siddharth Mridul.
Earlier, on October 19, a division bench of Justices Aniruddha Bose and Vikram Nath of the Supreme Court had ordered, “We request the High Court to hear out the matter early regarding the fact that these matters are pending before the High Court for some time now.”
The High Court was hearing a batch of petitions filed by Nabila Hasan, Bahadur Abbas Naqvi, and others seeking actions against the Delhi police over the violence and raised questions over the extreme physical force used against the protesters.
Background:
On December 12, the students of Jamia Milia Islamia University were protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Bill, which was passed by both houses of parliament on December 9, 2019. The bill became Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) after it was signed by the President on December 12. Large Protests and Rallis were organized at many places on the University campuses against the CAA.
Case Title: Nabila Hasan & Ors. v. Union of India & Anr. (and a batch of connected matters)