Delhi High Court has issued a notice to Delhi Commissioner of Police, Amulya Patnaik on the plea filed seeking registration of FIR against BJP leaders Anurag Thakur, Parvesh Verma and Kapil Mishra for their inciting speeches during the campaigning ahead of Delhi assembly elections.

The notice issued requires Patnaik to respond to the petition and show up for the hearing at 12:30 PM on Wednesday. Notice has also been issued to all three BJP leaders.

Delhi HC can’t believe cops haven’t watched Kapil Mishra hate speech

Delhi High Court Justice S Muralidhar was “amazed” to learn during the hearing that a senior police official had not watched Kapil Mishra’s footage of a recent hate speech.

Then, he had the court play the video for the benefit of a Deputy Commissioner of Police, several lawyers and Solicitor General Tushar Mehta — who also said earlier that he had not watched such videos.

The Delhi High Court was hearing a plea seeking an independent judicial inquiry into violence that has rocked parts of Northeast Delhi since Sunday. As many as 20 people have been killed.