New Delhi: Not for the first time, a Delhi court on Tuesday, September 28, took a dim view of the Delhi Police’s displayed slowness in investigating a case related to the Delhi riots of February 2020.Additional Sessions Judge Vinod Yadav said that it was a “sorry state of affairs” where the police was claiming that the riots and its circumstances prevailed for four weeks after the violence, preventing police from investigating the cases. Police had also said that the pandemic after that was responsible for ‘quality investigation’ not talking place after that, the judge said.According to a report by LiveLaw, judge Yadav said that despite Delhi Police setting up a special investigation cell (SIC) to monitor investigations into the riots cases, the FIR 134/2021 filed at Gokalpuri police station, had “so far not got the attention of either Worthy Commissioner of Police, Delhi Police or the SIC constituted by him.”One Nisar Ahmed first lodged a complaint with police on March 4, 2020, the court said.Indian Express has reported that when no action was taken by police, Ahmed filed a second complaint on March 18, at the Eidgah relief camp in Mustafabad, where he noted that a mob of 200 to 250 people were mobilised during the riots using a microphone. “A clarion call was being given to the persons of a particular community to go and vandalise and put on fire the houses of persons of other community,” he had noted.Ahmed’s complaint, Express reported, was clubbed with another complaint in which no accused was named.The court said that the second incident which Ahmed claimed to have witnessed was the vandalisation, looting and arson of his own godown on February 25, 2020. This FIR was registered by police on June 7, 2021 – nearly a year and a half after the incident and two months after a court order in a revision petition where the state had not challenged the FIR.However, no investigation has taken place into the allegations in the FIR at all.“…Inspector Jagdish Yadav and Inspector Vineet Pandey are present in Court and both of them have submitted that no progress in the investigation of case FIR No.134/2021, PS Gokalpuri has taken place. The persons named in the FIR have not been interrogated,” the court said, according to LiveLaw.The court ordered that a copy of its order be sent to the Commissioner of Police “for his reference and taking of appropriate steps required in the matter”.The court also directed the special prosecutor to take instructions and inform the court on the next hearing date on investigation carried out by the police.In the hearings of cases related to Delhi Police’s investigation into the riots, the courts and especially ASJ Yadav’s court, has had occasion to be critical of police’s approach to the cases. Amidst public outrage at the partisan manner in which police has led the probe into the case and floated a conspiracy angle by arresting and incarcerating organisers of the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act, courts have on various occasions noted that the investigation has been “callous” and displayed “preposterous” lack of knowledge by police.The Delhi high court in July had stayed the imposition of Rs 25,000 costs on the police in a case where a lower court had noted that investigation in case FIR No.64/2020 “has been done in a most casual, callous and farcical manner.” While the high court had stayed the fine, it had refused to interfere with the trial court’s strictures against its investigation.A Delhi court had earlier observed that the Delhi Police’s senior officers have displayed a “complete lack of supervision” in investigation.A court had also pointed to the Delhi Police’s laxity in investigating the burning of the Madina Mosque mosque during the riots. Earlier, ASJ Yadav had expressed dissatisfaction with Delhi Police for not having maintained files in connection with the probe into the desecration of the Masjid.