New Delhi: Revisiting the powers of a magistrate to direct investigations, a Delhi sessions court has set aside an April order that directed Delhi Police to probe the alleged role of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Kapil Mishra in the 2020 North-East Delhi riots.

On Monday, special judge (PC Act) Dig Vinay Singh of the Rouse Avenue Courts quashed the order of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (ACJM) Vaibhav Chaurasia, terming it “fundamentally flawed, illegal, and improper”.

“The impugned order reveals a serious jurisdictional error that makes the order illegal and unsustainable concerning the ‘first incident’. It is illegal, improper, and incorrect, as it exceeds jurisdiction and constitutes a case of jurisdictional overreach,” the court held in its 36-page decision. Mishra, the

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