Delhi court turns down plea to produce activists in fetters
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A Delhi Court dismissed the plea of authorities to produce former JNU pupil Umar Khalid and United Against Hate member Khalid Saifi, arrested in reference to the north-east Delhi riots final yr, in “fetters and handcuffs”, noting that they aren’t earlier convicts nor even gangsters.
Additional Sessions Judge Vinod Yadav mentioned, “The applications appear to have been filed in a mechanical manner, without application of mind by the high echelon of Delhi Police and prison authority.”
“The Delhi Prison Rules are silent about the handcuffing and putting fetters upon the prisoners. The accused persons, who are sought to be produced in fetters and handcuffs are admittedly not previous convicts. They are not even gangsters,” the court mentioned.
Pursuant to notices issued by the court on earlier listening to, Additional DCP (Special Cell) on May 6 acknowledged that “no such application, seeking to produce both the above named accused in ‘handcuffs in both hands from back side’ is filed by the undersigned before any court or before any other authority”.
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However, the DCP, third BN, in its reply filed on April 26, acknowledged that in the aftermath of try to free below trial prisoner (UTP) Kuldeep alias Fajja from the custody at GTB Hospital on March 25 by armed assailants, it was determined to request the courts for permission to handcuff the excessive threat or delicate UTPs who’re inclined to escape or makes an attempt could also be made by their gang members to free them.
“As part of the exercise, the current application for handcuffing UTPs Umar Khalid and Khalid Saifi was moved for the consideration of the Court,” the DCP, third BN had acknowledged.
“A joint reading of the stand(s) taken by the aforesaid authorities in their respective replies show that the material on the basis of which the aforesaid applications were filed is devoid of merits. The Delhi Prison Rules are silent about the handcuffing and putting fetters upon the prisoner,” the court mentioned.
“Be that as it may, since now fresh COVID protocols have been notified in Delhi and even the minutes of High Powered Committee dated May 4, 2021 are in place, now the accused persons are not being produced in Court physically, therefore, these application(s) at this stage are not required,” the court added whereas dismissing the applying.
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