Battered Capital counts its dead Why no FIR for hate speeches: Delhi high court pulls up police

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Peace and harmony are central to our ethos. I appeal to my sisters and brothers of Delhi to maintain peace and brotherhood at all times › NARENDRA MODI, Prime Minister The CWC is of the firm opinion that what has happened... is a colossal failure of duty for which the entire responsibility must be borne by the Central government SONIA GANDHI,

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ties at the two main hospitals where the victims were taken.

Overnight, the NSA held emergency meetings that included special commissioner SN Srivastava and other senior officers of the Delhi Police. Doval later met Union home minister Amit Shah, to whom the Delhi Police reports.

On Wednesday, Doval held a second meeting with the police brass before he and several of the officers fanned out to the stricken

nNEW DELHI: The Delhi high court has asked city police commissioner Amulya Patnaik and special police commissioner Praveer Ranjan to view videos of hate speeches made by politicians which could have contributed to the violence in the Capital that took a communal turn earlier this week, leaving at least 27 dead. It asked them to do this on Wednesday itself, take a “conscious” call on the action that will be taken against these people, and inform the court of the same on Thursday.

In oral observations, the court on Wednesday exhorted the police to “just file FIRS”. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for Delhi Police, resisted, saying the atmosphere to file the cases was “not conducive”. The court’s final order did not include a direction for the FIRS.

The bench watched and also made SG Tushar Mehta watch videos of hate speeches made by four Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders, Kapil Mishra, Abhay Verma, Parvesh Verma and Anurag Thakur .

This came after Mehta said he had not watched the videos.

After Mehta protested that