“ Misusing the judicial system .” “In a state of inscrutable indolence .” “Hardly any connection between CCTV footage and FIR.” “Completel...
“Misusing the judicial system.” “In a state of inscrutable indolence.” “Hardly any connection between CCTV footage and FIR.” “Completely devoid of material.” Those are just some of the words that courts in Delhi have used over the last month with reference to the police’s investigations and legal applications in connection with the cases related to the communal violence in February, which left at least 53 dead and hundreds more injured.
The scattered reports reveal major problems with the way the Delhi Police has been approaching investigation of the violence, which is not a surprise since the authorities have been accused of acting in a partisan manner since the very beginning.
One report in the Indian Express offered a clear view of just how this state bias is playing out. According to the report, the Special Commissioner of Police (Crime) wrote an order to senior officers heading investigation teams, with the aim of guiding them.
This order claimed that the arrests of “some Hindu youth” had led to a “degree of resentment among the Hindu community”, which the Special Commissioner said was cause for the police to take “due care and precaution” in how it proceeds. Although the police insisted that its efforts are impartial, the reference to resentment among only the Hindus...
