Delhi riots case: Court calls police probe ‘callous and farcical’, imposes ₹25,000 fine

The judge pulled up the police for lack of efficacy and fairness in the investigation and said that it “has been done in a most casual, callous, and farcical manner”

A court in Delhi has slapped a fine of ₹25,000 on the Delhi police and called its investigation into a Delhi riots case “callous and farcical”. Additional Sessions Judge Vinod Yadav directed that the amount of fine to be recovered from the Station House Officer (SHO) of Bhajanpura police station and his supervising officers, saying they miserably failed in their statutory duties. The police had challenged a magisterial court order that had directed it to register an FIR on the complaint of one Mohammad Nasir, who lost his left eye after suffering a gunshot injury during the riots. Investigators, however, maintained that there was no need to register a separate FIR as it had already registered one earlier and there was no evidence against the persons who allegedly shot him as they were not present in Delhi at the time of the incident.