Order To Discharge Activist Sharjeel Imam, 10 Others Illegal: Delhi Police Tells High Court
NDTV
In a petition, the police has said the trial court's order is in the teeth of well-settled principles of law, suffers from grave infirmities that go to the root of the matter and is perverse in the eyes of law.
The Delhi Police has contended before the high court that a trial court's order discharging 11 people, including student activists Sharjeel Imam and Asif Iqbal Tanha, in the 2019 Jamia Nagar violence case, is patently illegal and perverse.
In a petition, the police has said the trial court's order is in the teeth of well-settled principles of law, suffers from grave infirmities that go to the root of the matter and is perverse in the eyes of law.
The plea is scheduled to come up for hearing on Monday.
The petition has sought to set aside the trial court's February 4 order that discharged the 11 accused in the case, holding that they were made "scapegoats" by the Delhi Police and that dissent has to be encouraged and not stifled.
