SC junks ex-Delhi mayor plea for FIR against UP Police raid on his home in search of journalist
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea filed by former Delhi Mayor Farhad Suri seeking that a first information report be registered against Uttar Pradesh Police officers who raided his home, allegedly without a warrant, while searching for journalist Abhishek Upadhyay, Live Law reported.
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Upadhyay was among the first to flag the alleged donation theft at the Ram temple in Ayodhya.
In his petition, Suri had sought directions from the court for an FIR to be registered and for guidelines about inter-state police operations, particularly pertaining to searches of residential premises, Bar and Bench reported.
The bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana refused to pass the guidelines and told Suri to approach the Delhi Police for a case to be filed. The court said that it had “no reason to doubt that competent police will strictly act in accordance with law”.
According to the petition, at around 12.45 am on August 23, an “unusually large” team of the Ghaziabad Police in a convoy of about 15 police vehicles arrived to search Suri’s Nizammuddin East residence, The Hindu reported.
Suri claimed that some officers were in plainclothes and did not furnish a search warrant.
The plea contends that Suri was initially told by the police that they were looking for a suspect in...