This observation took place at a hearing in a riot case in northeastern Delhi. A police officer identified three persons suspected of rioting, but another police officer stated that they could not be identified during the investigation.

A trial judge has been criticizing Delhi police for “relentless” investigations in some riots in 2020, and once observed that failure to conduct proper investigations would torture “democratic sentries”, and was transferred to a court in another capital on Wednesday.

The Extra Conference Judge (ASJ) Vinod Yadav has been hearing several riot cases in the Karkardooma District Court. It has been transferred to the Rouse Avenue Court in New Delhi to serve as the Special Judge (PC Act) (CBI), replacing Virender Bhatt, who will now be a judge. The Karkardooma Court holds the post of ASJ. The announcement issued by the Delhi High Court listing the names of the transferred judges stated: “Your Chief Justice of this Court and Your Honorable Judges of this Court are very pleased to make the following announcement/transfer of judicial services in the Delhi High Court with immediate effect.” The proclamation signed below by the Registrar Manoj Jain stated that the judicial officers who are being transferred have been instructed to notify them of the case of retaining the judgment or order before giving up the charge.

ASJ Yadav, the day before he was transferred, lashed out at the Delhi police, stating that “police witnesses were taking an oath” and issued contradictory statements. This observation took place at a hearing in a riot case in northeastern Delhi. A police officer identified three persons suspected of rioting, but another police officer stated that they could not be identified during the investigation.

“This is a very regrettable state of affairs,” Yadav once said, seeking a report from the Deputy Chief of Police (Northeast). The judge has always disapproved of the Delhi police’s investigation into some riots, and sometimes conducted “cold and funny” investigations and even imposed fines, which were later challenged in the High Court.

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