Overview

• Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Vaibhav Chaurasia cited a “lackadaisical” approach as police repeatedly failed to gather Kapil Mishra’s social media evidence since March 2024.
• The FIR, lodged in January 2020 under Section 125 of the Representation of the People Act, alleges Mishra promoted enmity by calling parts of Delhi “mini Pakistans” and claiming Pakistan had “entered Shaheen Bagh.”
• The court directed the Delhi Police Commissioner to review chronic inaction and forwarded past order sheets to both the commissioner and joint commissioner (Northern Range).
• Despite assurances, investigators have not obtained data from X (formerly Twitter) on Mishra’s posts, prompting the bench to press for time-bound action.
• Mishra’s legal team maintains his remarks critiqued rival parties’ secular claims rather than any religious community and argues the chargesheet lacks substantive material.