A Special Executive Magistrate (SEM) court on Wednesday directed the Delhi police to provide AISA president Neha Bora with copies of six FIRs registered against her during the protests against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, which were cited as her criminal antecedents while initiating proceedings to make her furnish a peace bond.
High Court had directed police to share all material
He submitted that despite relying on these cases as criminal antecedents to issue a show-cause notice asking Bora to execute a peace bond, the police had not provided copies of the FIRs. the high court had directed the police to furnish all material relied upon to initiate the proceedings and asked the SEM to ensure that the principles of natural justice were followed before passing any order requiring her to furnish a bond While upholding the notice. The fresh direction follows the Delhi High Court’s dismissal of Bora’s challenge to the peace-bond proceedings on October 23. The police had earlier supplied Bora with documents, including a kalandara (a police report submitted to a magistrate) dated October 17 and three general diary entries from different police stations. The police, represented by legal consultants Prashant Prakash and Bhagwan Dass , meanwhile, told the court that the FIRs lodged against Bora were sensitive in nature and hence they shall be provided by the next date of hearing on November 20.
The direction by Special Executive Magistrate Ritu Raj came after Bora’s counsel, advocate Abhik Chimni, argued that the documents earlier supplied by the police were deficient and did not contain complete details of the FIRs, which were required by them to furnish a reply.
