The Supreme Court of India on Wednesday heard the case of violence erupted during protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). Expressing concern over the Delhi violence, the court cited the Prakash Singh judgment of the Supreme Court regarding police reform and said that the police should be free to act. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta said that when we talk about Prakash Singh, we forget the ground reality. The Supreme Court has not given any order. The court said that the police and administration should be allowed to work. The court is neither giving orders nor stopping it.
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Earlier in his statement, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta said that there should be no talk of discouraging the police. It is to be noted that one of our soldiers is dead and is on the DCP ventilator. DCP's helmet was attacked and he was brutally assaulted.
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Former Chief Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah and others have filed a petition in the apex court to direct the police to register an FIR against those responsible for inciting violence. Justices SK Kaul and Justice K.M. The petition before Joseph's bench was mooted for an emergency hearing, on which the bench asked to hear it on Wednesday. Apart from Habibullah, the Bhima Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad and social activist Bahadur Abbas Naqvi are also among those who filed the new petition. In the petition, he has blamed BJP leader Kapil Mishra for the violence in Delhi.