Court seeks report on mantri plea against CS

New Delhi, Aug. 7: A Delhi court has sought response from the city police on a plea moved by Delhi environment minister Imran Hussain seeking call detail records in a case related to his alleged mobbing by officials, a day after the alleged assault on the chief secretary Anshu Prakash.

Metropolitan magistrate Abhilash Malhotra directed the SHO concerned to file a report by August 18 after the police sought time in this regard.

The directions were passed on an application moved by advocates B. S. Joon and Mohd. Irshad, who submitted that they were not satisfied with a status report filed by the police, “as a clean chit was given to the CS without making any enquiry and without his joining the investigation”.

In the status report filed before the court, the police stated that various CCTV footage of the Delhi Secretariat is examined and so far no evidence has come forward against Prakash for provoking the staff.

The police informed the court that they were still in the process of identification of some of the offenders who are seen in the CCTV footage and need more time to conclude the investigation.

The court was hearing a complaint filed by Hussain seeking summoning of Prakash and other government officials, who were allegedly involved in the incident, as accused.

After the incident related to alleged assault on the chief secretary at chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s residence, Hussain had filed the complaint with the Delhi police.