The Delhi High Court has ordered the registration of an FIR against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Syed Shahnawaz Hussain on a woman’s complaint of rape at a farmhouse in south Delhi’s Chhatarpur area in April 2018.
Justice Asha Menon also questioned the Delhi police for showing “complete reluctance” to even register an FIR and put the investigation machinery into operation. The judge, in her August 17 judgment, ordered the police to complete its investigation and submit a detailed report before the concerned trial court within three months.
The high court’s direction came while dismissing an appeal filed by Mr. Hussain against the July 7, 2018, order passed by a trial court in New Delhi directing the registration of an FIR on the complaint filed by the woman.
