Metropolitan Magistrate while dismissing Satbir Singh's plea seeking direction to Delhi Police to register a criminal case against Hazare and his team members.
A Delhi court has asked a complainant from Haryana to lead evidence on his allegations that Anna Hazare and his team instigated people against the government and disrupted normal life during their August anti-graft protest.
Metropolitan Magistrate Tyagita Singh, while dismissing Satbir Singh's plea seeking direction to the Delhi Police to straightway register a criminal case against Hazare and his team members, gave him an opportunity to produce evidence in the court to support his allegations.
"This court is of the opinion that no direct offence by accused persons is made out at this stage, hence direction to the police to lodge FIR and investigate the case cannot be given at this stage. Hence, application under section 156(3) of the CrPC (lodging of FIR) stands dismissed.
"The complainant, however, is granted opportunity to lead his evidence and the complaint is treated as case under Section 200 CrPC," the court said, fixing December 12 as the date of recording of the complainant's statement.
Leading evidence in a court by a private complainant implies getting recorded his statement and those of other witnesses in support of his allegations and production of other documentary evidence to support the charges.
Singh, in his complaint, has accused Hazare of instigating people across the country to lay a siege of the houses of MPs and ministers to press their demands.
He has alleged that a 21-year-old man, who had participated in Hazare's hunger strike, had died of pneumonia for which Team Anna was "responsible."
The Delhi Police in its reply has said no case is made out against the social activist and his teammates.
Even as the court dismissed his plea, it noted Singh was correct to some extent in saying that the huge public gathering at the Ramlila Ground had caused disruption and obstruction in traffic and that it had become difficult for authorities to control the public and maintain law and order.
According to it, certain cases of theft and quarrels had come to the notice and FIRs were also lodged.
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