Delhi violence: Court slams police for arresting complainant in mosque arson case
….On March 17, a Delhi court pulled the Delhi Police up for “arresting the complainant” in a case of arson and vandalism at the same mosque.
The observations were made by Additional Sessions Judge Vinod Yadav, who called the arrest absurd and directed DCP (North East) to file a status report on the investigation carried out so far. According to a report in The Indian Express, the judge also summoned SHO (Karawal Nagar) on March 25 with the case diaries.
According to the complaint before the court, as reported by IE, about 20-25 people had gathered in the Madina Masjid Gali on February 25, 2020 allegedly armed with lathis, sticks, acid, rods and petrol bottles. The accused then allegedly broke into the mosque and started destroying everything….
