NEW DELHI: Delhi High Court on Tuesday allowed Delhi Police two more weeks to undertake a “comprehensive inquiry” into the leakage of content of chargesheet and supplementary chargesheet filed in a case related to communal violence in northeast Delhi last year, to the media even before cognizance was taken by the concerned court.
A bench of justice Mukta Gupta ordered that the file containing the report on the inquiry be placed before it on the next date of hearing.
Jamia Millia Islamia student and riots accused Asif Iqbal Tanha had moved the high court last year, alleging misconduct by police officers in leaking his alleged disclosure statement in the main chargesheet, recorded by the probe agency during the investigation, to the media.
Advocate Sowjhanya Shankaran, representing Tanha, told the court that while an additional affidavit on a subsequent leakage with respect to a supplementary chargesheet had been filed, response from the state was not on record.
Special public prosecutor (SPP) Rajat Nair sought time of two more weeks from the court to file the report of an ongoing inquiry into the leaks.
