The Delhi Minorities Commission has written to the Deputy Commission of Police, northeast Delhi in view of allegedly arbitrary and illegal arrests of youth in the age of 20-30 from the minority community following the violence.
DMC has sought information from the police pertaining to the registration of FIRs and persons who have been detained or arrested, from February 23 onwards. The Commission is authorised under section 10(5)(d) of the Delhi Minorities Commission Act, 1999, to seek requisition of any public or institutional record from any office or institution of the government.
The Commission has also asked for the information pertaining to the complaints that have not been converted into FIRs. The Commission has also set March 25 as a deadline to furnish all the information asked for.
The Commission has forewarned that if the concerned DCP fails to submit the status report/action taken report by the given deadline, further actions will be taken by the Commission, which as per the Act, enjoy quasi-judicial powers.
Apart from writing to DCP, the Commission has also written to the District Magistrate of the northeast district.
In that letter, the Commission has asked SDM to furnish area wise list of compensation forms filed by victims of violence in the last week of February.
The concerned District Magistrate is asked to submit the said information latest by March 23.