Delhi Police moves SC to withdraw 13 FIRs, including 10 on attempt to murder | India News
NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police on Monday requested the Supreme Court to urgently invoke its exclusive powers under Article 142 of the Constitution to quash 13 FIRs lodged after the July 20 violence during students’ protest march to Parliament and permit registration of an FIR against 2,873 criminal elements responsible for the violence.With the Cockroach Janata Party calling for a fresh march from India gate to Delhi Police Headquarters on Sep 5 accusing the Centre of reneging on its promises and delaying withdrawal of FIRs, solicitor general Tushar Mehta requested a bench led by CJI Surya Kant to list the application by Delhi Police seeking withdrawal of the 13 FIRs, including 10 which had invoked attempt to murder charges.The bench agreed to list the application on Tuesday. CJP had called of its 36-day-long agitation on July 25 after education minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned and the government assured compensation to families of students who committed suicide and withdrawal of FIRs.“In view of the larger public interest and in the peculiar facts of this case, the applicant invokes the extraordinary jurisdiction of the SC under Article 142 of the Constitution of India, praying for quashing of the FIRs mentioned in the chart,” it said, but said the quashing of FIRs should not be treated as a precedent for future.The police in its application gave a chart of the 13 FIRs lodged in police stations at Parliament Street (five), Connaught Place (five), and one each at Kartavya Path, Barakhamba Road and Mandir Marg. “As per the decision taken by the central government on July 25, the Delhi Police no longer wishes to pursue the FIRs registered in connection with the CJP protests spread over 20th to 25th July,” it said.“If any other FIR, with regard to the same incidents mentioned in the above FIRs, is subsequently found or brought to the attention of the government, and which is not forming part of the above referred chart, the government shall not oppose the affected party seeking a similar relief from the SC,” it said.
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However, it said that Delhi Police intends to register a fresh FIR to investigate the role of 2,873 people, having serious criminal antecedents as per National Crime Records Bureau database and prima facie present at the protest site. “Apart from this single FIR, no fresh FIR will be filed thereafter for the incidents which happened on July 20-25,” it said.
