Senior advocate Kamini Jaiswal has filed a fresh writ petition in the Supreme Court through advocate Prashant Bhushan, seeking to institute a Special Investigation Team to probe the incidents of attacks on 15 and 17 February at Patiala House court and also issue suo motu contempt proceeding against three advocates, accused of interfering in the administration of justice and for willfully violating the orders of the Supreme Court dated 17 February.
The three lawyers named in the petition as the respondent-accused are Vikram Singh Chauhan, Yashpal Singh, and Om Sharma.
According to the petition, these three advocates were found to be leading the attacks in the incidents as per various reports including media reports, and the sting operation aired on the India Today news channel.
The petition also cited the reports submitted to the Supreme Court by senior advocate, Ajit Kumar Sinha, who had gone with the team of five senior lawyers, the Registrar General, High Court of Delhi, and the Delhi Police on the incidents.
Since the addresses of the accused advocates are not known to the petitioner, they have been made parties through BCI, the petition says.
That the petition seeks initiation of suo motu contempt proceedings against the accused is significant. Rule 3(a) of the Rules to regulate proceedings for contempt of Supreme Court, 1975 enables the Supreme Court to take action suo motu. For initiating suo motu proceedings, the consent in writing of the Attorney General or the Solicitor General is not required.
Today’s report in The Hindu stated that the AG had declined consent to a petition seeking initiation of contempt proceedings against those among the students who gathered to mark the hanging of Parliament attack convict, Afzal Guru in 2014 at JNU on 9 February, for describing his death sentence as “judicial killing”. This petition was under Rule 3(c).
In all cases where the court is not acting suo motu, the motion must be by, or with the written consent of, the AG or the SG This is a mandatory requirement. The object behind this requirement, according to academics, is to ensure that criminal contempt petitions are adequately screened before being placed before the court.
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Of course the Supreme Court should hear this matter.
"If these people are not punished, then we as jagruk yuvaks (awakened youth) will enter their campus and shoot the traitors.”
This is incitement to violence and public disorder, this is a crime though not the crime of sedition.
Why has Delhi Police not taken cognizance of this crime?
zeenews.india.com/news/india/will-enter-jnu-campus-and-shoot-the-traitors-warns-dusu-president_1859163.html
Arif Ayaz Parrey imagines the questioning of Umar Khalid and
Anirban Bhattacharya by the Delhi police
raiot.in/interrogation-transcripts-of-umar-anirban/
The man who Kanhaiya identified as having been part of the group that beat him was apparently in a black striped suit. According to the police officers on the video that man was part of Kanhaiya's escort party or gained entry along with that escort party. Kanhaiya was escorted by a police contingent from South District police.
That man was allowed to walk away by the Police. He had the audacity to question a police officer for his ID when the police officer asked the man to identify himself.
When Kanhaiya was attacked inside the gate where there were parked motor-cycles, the mob shouted aagaya, meaning they were waiting for him.
It has been reported that the police changed the gate from which Kanhaiya was taken in at the last minute.
All this shows that the attack was planned and the Police were part of this plan. The man in the striped suit could even be a police or intelligence agent and not a lawyer.
What the Police ought to have done was to cordon off the route that Kanhaiya would have taken. Instead he was led by his police escort party right to the waiting mob.
There must be CCTV cameras at the gate. Thus the attack might even be captured on video.
Another thing that the video exposes is the lies on oath by the Delhi Police. Bassi and the police status report affirmed by a senior police officer have stated that there was no attack.
In the video, the attack is confirmed by Police officers who even divulge that a policeman accompanying Kanhaiya was also attacked with a blade by someone part of the same mob.
So the top-most hierarchy of the Delhi Police has lied and misled the Supreme Court and the Delhi High Court. This is now established by documentary evidence.
In all this, the role of the Supreme Court Committee in recording this video and exposing the truth is the most heartening.
The fake Hafiz Saeed tweet
Both the Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Police Commissioner used a tweet from a fake/ parody account of designated terrorist Hafiz Saeed to taint the slogan shouting at JNU on 9 February with the brush of terrorism. The intent was to chill protests and silence voices that responded to the arbitrary arrest of JNU student union president under the extreme charge of sedition. When questioned on this tweet, Bassi asked journalists if they "knew" that the handle was fake. This fake twitter handle @hafeezsaeedjud was merrily tweeting for months to the likes of Arvind Kejriwal, Barkha Dutt, Rana Ayub and other prominent persons. The Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s twitter handle is also included in tweets along with this fake twitter handle. As are twitter handles of Rajnath Singh, and various Congress, AAP and BJP leaders. The main function of this twitter handle appears to have been to tweet praise for perceived Modi opponents like Kejriwal, Barkha Dutt and NDTV. This would be followed by BJP supporters accusing for example Barkha Dutt of having terrorist connections. If you search for this fake twitter handle on twitter, the search leads to many tweets over several months pointing out that this was a parody account and not really Hafiz Saeed. India considers Hafiz Saeed as a dangerous terrorist and enemy. Are we to assume that our NSA Ajit Doval, the RAW and the IB, and our Police were unaware of this twitter handle and that it was fake? Or was Hafiz Saeed conversing with Barkha Dutt, Arvind Kejriwal, Rajnath Singh and many others including Modi’s twitter handle right under the nose of our intelligence agencies? Bassi and his team have still not explained this mystery. And we can expect that they won’t because there is no accountability for the Delhi Police. Who can compel the Delhi Police to admit that it knowingly used a fake tweet in order to silence democratic dissent against its actions against JNU.
Both the Home Minister Rajnath Singh and the Delhi Police used a tweet from a fake/ parody account of designated terrorist Hafiz Saeed to taint the slogan shouting at Jawaharlal Nehru University on 9 February with the brush of terrorism. The intent was to chill protests and silence voices that responded to the arbitrary arrest of JNU student union president under the extreme charge of sedition. When questioned on this tweet, Police Commissioner B S Bassi first claimed that the authenticity of the tweet was irrelevant. In later interviews Bassi postured and pointedly asking journalists if 'they knew' that the handle was fake.
This fake twitter handle @hafeezsaeedjud was merrily tweeting for months to the likes of Arvind Kejriwal, Barkha Dutt, Rana Ayub and other prominent persons. The Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s twitter handle is also included in tweets along with this fake twitter handle. As are twitter handles of Rajnath Singh, and various Congress, AAP and BJP leaders. The main function of this twitter handle appears to have been to tweet praise for perceived Modi opponents like Kejriwal, Barkha Dutt and NDTV. Such trolling tweets would be followed by BJP supporters accusing for example Barkha Dutt of having terrorist connections. Instead of India-Pakistan issues like Kashmir, this twitter handle appears to have been more preoccupied with trolling perceived opponents of Modi/ BJP/ RSS and it spent much of its time on Barkha Dutt, Rana Ayyub, Sagarika Ghose, Arvind Kejriwal, even Amir Khan.
If you search for this fake twitter handle on twitter, the search leads to many tweets over several months pointing out that this was a parody account and not really Hafiz Saeed. India considers Hafiz Saeed as a dangerous terrorist and enemy. Are we to assume that our NSA Ajit Doval, the RAW and the IB, and our Police were unaware of this twitter handle and that it was fake? Or was Hafiz Saeed conversing with Barkha Dutt, Arvind Kejriwal, Rajnath Singh and many others including Modi’s twitter handle right under the nose of our intelligence agencies? Bassi and his team have still not explained this mystery. And we can expect that they won’t because there is no accountability for the Delhi Police. Who can compel the Delhi Police to admit that it knowingly used a fake tweet in order to silence democratic dissent against its actions against JNU.
In a 28 February interview to the Indian Express, Bassi first avoided the question on this fake tweet. He finally said
"That content was extremely anti-national. I am not concerned whether it was fake or genuine or parody or whatever. The objective was that youth should not be swayed by that seditious tweet."
- See more at: indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/bassi-interview-delhi-police-patiala-court-attack-jnu-row-sedition/#sthash.ASmOrcKj.dpuf
If you search for this handle on twitter you will find many tweets from this account which could constitute hate speech, anti-national speech etc. So now that the Delhi Police is of the opinion that this twitter handle was being used to spread anti-national, seditious, and hate speech, we must ask if Bassi has directed an FIR to be registered against the person behind this Twitter handle. It has been several days since the Delhi Police claimed it had written to Twitter about this handle. Surely Twitter has replied by now. Surely the Delhi Police has some idea by now as to who was tweeting using this account. Has an FIR been registered against that person?
I would hazard a guess that if investigated, this fake twitter account will turn out to have been run from Indian soil and by someone affiliated to a BJP media/ propaganda outfit/ group.
See screenshots from twitter on my blog seemasapra.blogspot.in/2016/02/the-fake-hafiz-saeed-tweet-modi-sarkar.html
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