NEW DELHI:
Delhi high court on Friday sought response from the Centre and AAP government on a PIL seeking a probe by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) into the violence and its funding in
northeast Delhi
over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act. The plea also wanted cases to be lodged against Congress member Salman Khurshid and AIMIM members Waris Pathan and Asaduddin Owaisi for allegedly provoking citizens against CAA.
A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice C Hari Shankar issued notices to the ministry of home affairs, Delhi government and police seeking their stand on the plea by Ajay Gautam, urging the court to direct the Centre to order NIA to find out the “anti-national forces” behind the agitations and to probe the role of People’s Front of India (PFI), which is allegedly “funding, motivating and supporting the protests”.
It said protests have been on the lines of Palestine, where children and women were used as a shield for carrying out anti-national activities. It also sought an investigation into the role of PFI and who was funding, motivating and supporting these alleged anti-national protests.
It also sought an investigation against “anti-India forces, who are allegedly openly threatening to kill the Prime Minister and home minister, which is evident from the videos gone viral in social media and direct the state authorities to normalise the situation for the sake of convenience of the general public.”
It wanted directions to identify the roads blocked by protesters over CAA and immediate clearance of these roads. The plea also sought action against several Opposition members and social activists for allegedly provoking protesters at Shaheen Bagh.
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