The Delhi High Court Friday asked the police to file a status report on the alleged vandalism outside Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s home earlier this week and said the “unruly crowd” sought to create an “element of fear” and the police force at the spot was “inadequate” and “outnumbered”.
Hearing a petition by AAP MLA Saurabh Bhardwaj concerning the incident, a bench of Acting Chief Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Navin Chawla granted two weeks’ time to Delhi Police to file its status report in sealed cover.
“Some took law into their hands. There is element of fear sought to be created. That is evident. The police force was inadequate…they did try to stop them but they were outnumbered,” the court observed.
The court noted that a video of the incident showed an unruly crowd defacing the property and breaking the boom-barrier and “people tried to climb over the gate… (but) it appears that was not their intent”.
“You tell us what you have done. There should be something before us,” it said.
