How the Delhi Riots Case Remains Stagnant with Close to a Dozen Student Leaders Incarcerated

How the Delhi riots case remains stagnant with close to a dozen student leaders incarcerated

A look back at the trajectory of the Delhi Riots case(s), especially the infamous and belatedly registered FIR 59/2020 reveals a litany of procedural and substantive failures, together resulting in the incarceration without bail, for five long years, ten student activists and human rights defenders and one more politician as “accused”

Delhi Riots 2020: Stalled justice & the architecture of indefinite detention, FIR 59/2020 in perspective

There are cases where delay feels procedural, and then there are cases where delay becomes the punishment itself. To use a cliché, the process is the punishment. FIR 59/2020 is no ordinary criminal proceeding. It is a study in how the machinery of justice, even when questions of personal liberty are involved, can end up…