New Delhi, Sep 7 Former bureaucrat Ashish Joshi on Monday filed a plea before a Delhi court seeking a copy of the FIR against him in connection with a case allegedly related to posts involving the Election Commission.
Joshi, a former controller of communications in the Department of Telecommunications, had been brought to the Special Cell's office in New Friends Colony on September 2 and reportedly questioned for nearly nine hours over social media posts concerning the Election Commission of India.
According to the Delhi Police, the case was lodged under Section 192 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), which deals with provocation with the intent or knowledge that it is likely to cause a riot.
The plea is likely to be heard by Chief Judicial Magistrate Mridul Gupta on Tuesday.
In an earlier post on X, Joshi claimed that he was taken for interrogation after his morning walk on the assurance that it would take "very little time".
Despite repeatedly asking the police to inform his wife about his whereabouts, he was told they were only "following instructions", the former bureaucrat claimed.
Joshi had said he was finally allowed to make a phone call at 6.38 pm, after leaving his family and friends "in total panic" throughout the day.
He alleged that the conduct of the police was a "blatant violation" of the Supreme Court's landmark judgment in the DK Basu case and said informing a family member or a friend upon detention is a constitutional safeguard under Article 22(1).
In the DK Basu vs State of West Bengal judgment in 1997, the top court set mandatory rules for police officers to stop custodial violence and protect the rights of arrested/ detained people.
