A court in Delhi on Friday directed the police to file a response on how it proposes to retrieve data from advocate Mehmood Pracha ’s pen d...
A court in Delhi on Friday directed the police to file a response on how it proposes to retrieve data from advocate Mehmood Pracha’s pen drive without disclosing information related to the lawyer’s other clients, Bar and Bench reported.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Pankaj Sharma of Patiala House Court asked the Delhi Police to file its response on the matter by March 19, the next date of hearing, Live Law reported.
Pracha, who has been fighting cases on behalf of many accused in the large-scale communal violence that broke out in the Capital in February 2020, had approached the court on March 10, challenging the Delhi Police Special Cell’s search warrants after they raided his office. The court had stayed the search warrants till March 12.
The police had searched Pracha’s office in December too.
In Friday’s hearing, the court cited Section 126 of the Indian Evidence Act to the police, to underline the importance of data related to Pracha’s clients.
“The protection available under Section 126 of Indian Evidence Act makes it imperative for that the court protect the data/files relating to communication of clients with applicant stored in the hard disk from interference of police while collecting target data,” Sharma said, according to Bar and Bench.
The court also took note of the fact that Pracha had given his consent for furnishing “target...
