The Delhi High Court on Monday (October 5, 2026) dismissed a batch of petitions seeking a SIT probe into the 2020 riots in the national capital and the 2019 violence that broke out in Jamia Millia Islamia following anti-CAA protests.
In the northeast Delhi riots matter, the court was hearing a batch of petitions seeking directions for setting up a special investigation team (SIT), commission of inquiry or a fact-finding committee, for medical treatment, grant of compensation and registration of FIRs against the erring police officers. Some of the pleas also demanded that political leaders be booked for alleged hate speech, and the formation of a SIT to probe the violence and FIRs against police officers. The petitioners have claimed that there was a need for an SIT that was independent of the police and the central government to probe the alleged brutalities committed on the students by the police force.
The court had reserved its verdict on the batch of petitions on July 24.
