Can't allow amendment plea without hearing cops'

DELHI HIGH COURT ON JAMIA VIOLENCE

- OUR CORRESPONDENT

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Thursday said it would hear the police before deciding a plea to include certain prayers in a case related to violence in Jamia Millia Islamia in December 2019.

A bench of Justices Chandra Dhari Singh and Anup Jairam Bhambhani said there was a procedure followed in the proceedings as per which an order could be passed only after hearing both the sides.

The police, it said, had raised serious objections to the petitioners' application seeking to amend the prayers in the petition.

"We cannot hear the matter on lodging of FIR unless we allow the amendment application. First we have to allow this amendment application. For allowing this application there is serious opposition taken by the state and that side has to be heard before passing any order," the bench said.

The court said if the amendment application was allowed only then it would permit the petitioners to argue on the prayer seeking lodging of FIR.