Notices were also issued to Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, activist Harsh Mander, AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi, actress Swara Bhaskar and former judge of the Bombay High Court Justice (retired) BG Kolse Patil, among others.
The order was passed by a Bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul and Anoop Kumar Mendiratta.
The Bench was hearing applications seeking their impleadment in a batch of petitions alleging that they delivered hate speeches during the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act that instigated the riots of February 2020 in the national capital.
The petitions have demanded that FIRs should be registered against them for their alleged hate speeches and a Special Investigation Team (SIT) should be constituted to conduct an inquiry into the role of the Delhi Police in dealing with the riots, where over 50 people died.
The Court asked the politicians and others to respond as to whether they ought to be impleaded as party respondents to the present writ petitions.
Source: Barandbench
