Former Delhi Mayor seeks action against police officers over house search

Former Delhi Mayor Farhad Suri has approached the Supreme Court seeking the registration of an FIR against police officers who conducted an alleged midnight search at his Nizamuddin East residence in the national capital, purportedly aimed at locating Abhishek Upadhyay, an independent journalist who flagged the misappropriation of Ram Temple donations.

Mr. Suri, represented by advocate Anoop Prakash Awasthi, said in his plea that an “unusually large” contingent of Ghaziabad police rolled into his residential colony in a convoy of 15 to 16 police vehicles around 12.45 a.m. on the intervening night of August 22-23 to search his house.

Mr. Suri submitted that the whole thing was done in a “high-handed, unauthorised and intimidating manner”. He said some of the members of the posse were in plain-clothes and did not furnish a search warrant.