A bench of justices Surya Kant and Joymala Bagchi ordered that no expenses be framed towards Mahmudabad. It additionally ordered that the decrease court docket shall not take cognisance of the chargesheet filed towards him.
The instructions have been handed after the counsel for the Centre knowledgeable the court docket that there have been two FIRs towards Mahmudabad. The counsel mentioned that whereas a closure report has been filed in a single case, within the different case a cost sheet has been filed as a result of the offences have been made out.
Showing on behalf of Mahmudabad, senior advocate Kapil Sibal mentioned the event was unlucky. He mentioned Mahmudabad was being wrongly persecuted.
On the final listening to, the court docket had questioned the particular investigation staff (SIT) set as much as look at Fb posts of Mahmudabad on “misdirecting itself”. The bench had verbally noticed that the SIT was “unnecessarily increasing the scope” of its probe.
The bench had reiterated that the SIT should confine its investigation to the 2 FIRs already filed towards Mahmudabad for his two “objectionable” posts.
