Delhi Jahangirpuri violence: Supreme Court urged for ‘impartial probe’ in plea

After clashes were reported in Delhi’s Jahangirpuri on Hanuman Jayanti, a petition has been filed in the Supreme Court, seeking “an impartial probe” by a panel headed by a sitting judge.

Several people were left injured as the area in the northwestern part of the city on Saturday witnessed violence after stones were allegedly thrown during a Hanuman Jayanti procession. This was the first time since February 2020 that the national capital saw clashes between two groups at this scale.

“The role of (the) Delhi Police in 2020 riots have belittled them and have weakened the faith of the people in them. With this letter, I beseech your lordship’s attention in exercising epistolary jurisdiction, thereby constituting a committee headed by sitting judge of this court, to conduct impartial probe into (the) Jahangirpuri riots,” reads the plea moved before the top court by lawyer Amritpal Singh Khalsa.

Twenty-three people have been arrested so far in the case.