On Monday, the Delhi High Court stalled the police for the leak of an accused’s purported disclosure statement to the media before filing a charge sheet. The court was hearing a plea filed by Jamia Millia Islamia student Asif Iqbal Tanha in connection with the conspiracy case related to the Delhi riots. The single-judge bench of Justice Mukta Gupta called the police’s vigilance inquiry report into the matter of Asif as half-baked and a useless piece of paper and also said it is worse than anything that police do in an ordinary theft case. While noticing that only four or five statements had been recorded over a period of four months from September to January, the court pointed out that the file does not even show who conducted the vigilance inquiry. The judge has asked the special co...