Devangana Kalita’s plea for videos not maintainable: Delhi Police

NEW DELHI: Delhi Police has claimed before the high court that the demand by JNU student and Pinjra Tod activist Devangana Kalita, accused in a case related to northeast Delhi riots, seeking videos of protests against Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) is not maintainable.
The issue regarding maintainability of the plea was raised before Justice Suresh K Kait by additional solicitor general SV Raju, appearing for Delhi Police.
Delhi High Court then asked police to state its claims by way of an affidavit and listed the matter for hearing on February 4.
Kalita has sought copies of videos of protests against CAA and other electronic data available with police that were filed along with the chargesheet in the case.
While Kalita remains in judicial custody in the case under the stringent anti-terror law Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, she has been granted bail in a case related to the riots in Jaffarabad.
Earlier, before the trial court, Kalita’s counsel had sought copies of a pen drive containing video clips between February 22 and 26, 2020; DVD containing video clips of incident on February 25 and CD containing photographs and video clips of the accused; DVD containing video clips of protests of January 5, 2020 and DVD containing video clips under Jaffarabad Metro station between February 22 and 23.
Communal violence had broken out in northeast Delhi on February 24 last year, leaving at least 53 people dead and around 200 injured.