The Union government has filed an affidavit before the Delhi High Court denouncing the practice of some rights groups and other ‘vested interests’ constituting ‘extra-judicial commissions’ to investigate northeast Delhi pogrom 2020 and create narratives which may lead to ‘social and political unrest’.
The affidavit was filed by the Union government in support of a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking quashing of different reports prepared by the Delhi Minorities Commission (DMC), Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Citizens and Lawyers Initiative on the Delhi Riots of 2020, Bar and Bench reported.
The fact-finding reports called the violence “anti-Muslim pogrom” and exposed the police complicit in the attack against Muslims.
“Based on the fake, false or half true facts presented before it these ‘private and extrajudicial commissions’ enters into a, so called, process of collecting and recording evidences to give it a façade of statutory inquiry or investigation and after conducting such exercise comes out with a completely biased report which in most of the cases is found to be report acting as a cover-up to the offence and portraying real accused as victims of the crimes and real victims the accused of crimes,” read the affidavit.
The Union government has said that the Delhi Minorities Commission report is not only without jurisdiction, but also ‘fake’, and has been engineered by people with ‘oblique and extraneous motives’.