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The court noted that another bench of the High Court was already dealing with petitions of similar incidents, accordingly, transferred the batch of petitions to a bench headed by Justice Siddharth Mridul.
The Delhi High Court on Friday transferred a batch of petitions related to the Jamia Milia Islamia (JMI) University violence 2019, to another bench headed by Justice Siddharth Mridul.
Noting that another bench headed by Justice Siddharth Mridul is already examining petitions related to the North East Delhi Violence, a division bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad transferred a batch of petitions pertaining to the Jamia Milia Islamia (JMI) University violence of 2019 that took place during the Anti- Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protests.
On October 19, a division bench of Justices Aniruddha Bose and Vikram Nath of the Supreme Court 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.
Case Title: Nabila Hasan & Ors. v. Union of India & Anr. (and a batch of connected matters)
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