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Geelani seeks CBI probe

By Our Legal Correspondent

NEW DELHI, FEB. 15. The Delhi Police today informed the Supreme Court that a status report would be filed next week on the investigation into the assault on S.A.R. Geelani, Delhi University lecturer, acquitted by the Delhi High Court in the Parliament attack case.

On February 9, a Bench of Justice P. Venkatarama Reddi and Justice P.P. Naolekar had asked the police to file a report in one week. Today, during the hearing of the special leave petitions in the Parliament attack case, counsel Kamini Jaiswal told the Bench that Mr. Geelani had filed an application for a CBI probe into the attack.

Senior counsel for the police, Gopal Subramanium, said Mr. Geelani's statement was recorded only yesterday and that the police would take a week to submit the report. The Bench asked the police to file their response for a CBI probe and posted it for hearing to February 22. In his application, Mr. Geelani said that while he was struggling for his life in hospital, the police were constantly surrounding him and all his well-wishers, family and lawyer were harassed.

On February 12, they "ransacked" his house and "seized" his children's computer. They had also seized his car. He had been a victim of police atrocity and framed by the Special Branch, he alleged.

The police had not been allowing his brother, his wife and children to meet him. Mr. Geelani charged the police with spreading false information that he was deliberately obstructing the investigation.

Hence he sought a direction for a CBI probe.

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