Summary:
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has agreed to hear a PIL seeking an independent CBI probe into the Mukherjee Nagar incident, where the police allegedly assaulted an autorickshaw driver and his minor son. In the petition, Seema Singhal, through advocate Sangeeta Bharti, has sought an independent probe by the CBI or a similar agency into the “brutal attack” on autorickshaw driver Sarabjeet Singh in northeast Delhi’s MukherjeeNagar. Several videos of an altercation between Singh and policemen went viral on social media on Sunday. Delhi Police had on Tuesday submitted a report to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) in connection with the incident. The MHA had sought a report from Delhi Police Commissioner Amulya Patnaik on Monday after purported videos of the incident went viral..