Delhi High Court To Sit On Sunday For Habeas Corpus Pleas Alleging Illegal Police Detention Of Activists

Various habeas corpus petitions have been filed before the Delhi High Court alleging illegal detention of 10 activists by officials of the Delhi Police Special Cell.

The matter was mentioned today by Advocate Shahrukh Alam before a division bench comprising Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia which said that the pleas will be heard tomorrow.

One of the habeas corpus pleas has been filed by Advocate Deeksha Dwivedi on behalf of one Sagrika Rajora seeking directions to the State and police authorities to immediately produce her sister, Lakshita Rajora, before the Court.

The petition seeks production of the 22-year-old woman claiming that she has been missing since the evening of March 13 from the Vijay Nagar area near Delhi University.

According to the plea, the detenue had gone to the office of a student organisation located in Vijay Nagar near Delhi University North Campus on the evening of March 13, after which she became untraceable at around 8 PM and her phone was found switched off.

It has been alleged that several other individuals present at the same office also went missing around the same time.

Rajora has expressed a “grave and well-founded apprehension” that her sister may have been illegally picked up by officials of the Special Cell, Delhi Police.

She has stated that about eight months earlier, the detenue and her associates were allegedly subjected to illegal detention and custodial torture by the same agency for over a week without formal arrest or production before a magistrate.

Title: SAGRIKA RAJORA v. THE STATE (NCT OF DELHI) & ORS and other connected matters