The Delhi High Court stayed the search warrants issued for searching the office premises of advocate Mehmood Pracha.
Justice Jasmeet Singh was of the prima facie opinion that Delhi Police had searched Pracha’s office premises 24 December, 2020 and that there was no service of notice under section 91 of Cr.P.C, Live Law reported.
Delhi police had obtained search warrants for searching his office premises in a matter related to the alleged fabricated affidavit filed in a Delhi pogrom case.
Pracha’s plea submits that it is “completely arbitrary and against the basic concept of rule of law” for the police to act in an “underhanded manner” and obtain a fresh search warrant even when the whole issue was pending adjudication before the CMM.
The matter on January 13 for further hearing.
Pracha is a prominent lawyer who had been handling cases of accused persons involved with the northeast Delhi pogrom cases and had been instrumental in getting FIRs registered against the Hindu rioters for their role in anti-Muslim violence and Delhi Police for their “one-sided and mala fide investigation” due to which innocent Muslim youths were also implicated in the FIRs.
The earlier raids had been condemned by the local residents of violence-hit areas in northeast Delhi and members of the legal fraternity, who called it a breach of attorney-client privilege.
