The court noted that there was a direction to provide an advance copy to the counsel for the accused. However, neither an advance copy has been supplied nor even a reply has been filed in the Court. "In these circumstances, let the Special Director (Directorate of Enforcement) appear in person on the next date on December 8 at 2.00 PM," ASJ Rawat ordered on December 5, 2023.
The court was hearing an intervention application on behalf of a lawyer in a pending case filed by Shaikh Mujtaba Farooq, who sought the registration of an FIR and investigation against BJP officials Anurag Thakur, Kapil Mishra, Parvesh Verma, and Abhay Verma
A victim of the Delhi anti-Hindu riots, Vinod Kumar, was brutally beaten to death in front of his son Nitin Kumar alias Monu on the ghastly night of 24 February 2020.