Three voluminous appeals, each running into nearly 300 pages, were prepared overnight by a team of lawyers led by advocate Rajat Nair under the supervision of solicitor general Tushar Mehta to challenge the three judgments by a HC bench of Justices Sidharath Mridul and anup jairam. The police said the HC sidestepped the fact that in the riots in north-east Delhi in February 2020, as many as 53 people were killed and many citizens and police officials suffered injuries. "The said riots did not occur on the spur of the moment or due to a fit of communal anger but were pre-planned in multilayered, multi-organisational fashion, it said. "The judgments are perverse, against well-settled principles of law and contrary to legislative intent behind enactment of UAPA, the crops said. The police said the judgments failed to take into account evidence about a well-planned conspiracy to unleash violence and cause communal discord and the overt and covert acts of all three in giving the conspiracy a shape on the ground. Unfortunately, contrary to the evidence on record and the detailed oral and writteen submission filed, the HC decided the cases on a preconceived and a completely erroneous illusion as if the present case was a simpliciter case of protest by students. Discrarding the Evidence which clearly made out a sinister plot of mass-scale riots being hatched by the respondents along with other co-conspirators. There was a cause and evidence of terrorist activity against the respondent; there was corroborative evidence, however, while applying the legislative mandate. The misdirection of the HC is write large on its observations in the impungned judgment, wherein the HC has held that the present case was foisted in anxiety to suppress dissent they added. Towards Extremely grave consequences as was aparent from the statements of protected witnesses, the police said.
