Delhi Riots 2020: Why many police cases break down

With so many payments, said the former judge of the Supreme Court, Madan Lokur, the criminal prosecution and the police “should sit to enter what they have obtained in five years.”

He also said that “the responsibility must be established on criminal prosecution, whether the arrest is illegal or useless.”

“If the criminal prosecution puts someone in prison, because they have the power to do so or because they want to do so, they should not be allowed to move away from it if it is found that the incarceration is illegal or useless,” he added.

Even though some cases break down in the courts, many of the arrested are still in prison while waiting for a trial.

Gulfisha Fatima, a 33 -year -old doctoral aspirator, are among 12 activists who are still in prison on the charge of being “conspirators” of the riots.

Her family said that three other cases of police were filed against her and that she received bail in all. But it continues to face the incarceration in a fourth case in accordance with the Law on illegal activities (prevention) (UAPA) -the strict anti -terror law that establishes exceptionally provocative conditions for bail.

“Since going to prison, with each hearing, we hope it will finally,” said her father Syed Tasneef Hussain for the BBC.

In the case of Mrs. Fatima, after months after the pleading of the bail, the judge of the High Court of Delhi was transferred in 2023, and now the entire file is heard again.

“Sometimes I wonder if I will be able to see it or if I die before,” said Mr. Hussain.

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