NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court rapped the Delhi Police on the knuckles Friday for signing up FIR on the alleged hate speeches made at Dharam Sansad in Govindpuri in December 2021 after a lapse of five months and not making an arrest or filing chargesheet till date.A bench of CJI DY Chandrachud and Justice PS Narasimha fired concerns at extra solicitor basic KM Nataraj after petitioner Tushar Gandhi stated there was an explicit require violence at the Dharam Sansad and yet in flagrant violation of the SCs Tehseen Poonawala judgment directing expeditious action versus hate-mongers, cops has taken virtually no action.SC: What steps have been taken since FIR?Tushar Gandhis counsel Shadan Farasat stated his customer is not interested in contempt proceedings versus the Delhi Police commissioner, however wants action on the ground to secure the nonreligious material and communal harmony in the country.The bench relied on Nataraj and asked, What steps have been taken by the Delhi Police pursuant to claims of hate speeches at Dharam Sansad? The number of arrests have been made? Who is the examining officer who, even 8 months after registration of the FIR, has not submitted a chargesheet yet? The event is of December 19, 2021.
For how long would it consider the Delhi Police to complete the investigations and submit a chargesheet? Nataraj said the FIR has been registered and probe is proceeding.
The petitioner can not determine how the examination must be carried out.
The Delhi Police is not in contempt as directions provided by the SC in 2018 in Tehseen Poonawala case have been fully abided by, the ASG said.
The SC asked the Delhi Police to submit an affidavit within 2 weeks detailing the steps taken because the registration of FIR on May 4 last year.In April last year, the SC had actually taken strong exception to the Delhi Police affidavit, which had stated, After a deep inquiry and evaluation of the contents of the video, cops did not discover any compound in the videos as per the accusations levelled by the plaintiffs.
In the video of the Delhi incident, there is no utterance versus any particular section.
Thus, after inquiry and assessment of the alleged video, it was concluded that the alleged speech did not divulge any hate words against a particular neighborhood as declared or otherwise.
The Delhi Police informed that all complaints are now closed.
A month later, it signed up the FIR.