Nine former IPS officers, who rendered services under various capacities in the Government of India and the States have wrote a letter to the Commissioner of Police, Delhi, for reinvestigation of Delhi communal riots, unleashed by the perpetrators against anti CAA protestors. The retired IPS Officers identified themselves as part of the Constitutional Conduct Group in which the former super cop, Julio Ribeiro is a member.

The open letter addressed to the Delhi Commissioner of Police says that it was the sad day in the history of Indian Police that investigations and challans submitted in the Court by Delhi Police pertaining to riots are biased and politically motivated.

The letter further acknowledged that one of the Special Commissioners of the Delhi Police openly exerted undue influence into the investigations to calm particular majority rioters. The letter says that such appeasement of majority rioters is a miscarriage of justice deliberately framing against minority.

“What pains us more is implicating all those who spoke and joined protests against Citizenship [Amendment] Act [CAA]. They were simply exercising their fundamental rights of freedom of speech and peaceful protests as guaranteed by the Constitution. Basing investigations on “disclosures” without concrete evidence violates all principles of fair investigation. While implicating leaders and activists, who expressed their views against CAA, all those who instigated violence and are associated with the ruling party have been let off the hook,” the letter says.

Expressing concern over such biased investigations, the retired IPS Officers say, “A dangerous thought that may ultimately shake the pillars of an orderly society and lead to breakdown of law and order.”