Delhi Court appoints Local Commissioner to oversee sealing of lawyer's computer
The Hindu
Advocate Mehmood Pracha, representing the accused in the north-east Delhi riots, will keep posession of the computer and has been asked not to tamper with it.
A court in New Delhi on Saturday appointed a Local Commissioner (LC) and directed the police to coordinate with him a visit to advocate Mehmood Pracha's office to seal his computer in a case of alleged tutoring of a witness in connection with the north-east Delhi riots. The sessions court, which stayed till the next date of hearing, April 28, the magistrate court's order directing a search warrant against Mr. Pracha to be executed, gave the directions after Special Public Prosecutor Amit Prasad did not object to Mr. Pracha's proposal to appoint an LC. Additional Sessions Judge Dharmender Rana directed the Investigating Officer (IO) to go to Mr. Pracha's office on Saturday and seize and seal the computer. It directed that the entire procedure be videographed in the presence of advocate Avneet Kaur who was appointed as the Local Commissioner.
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