New Delhi, Feb. 18 -- A sessions court in Delhi has stayed a magistrate court's order for the registration of an FIR against the station house officer (SHO) and other police personnel of a local police station for alleged hate crime during the 2020 Delhi riots.

The SHO had approached the Karkadooma sessions court against the order passed by the Magistrate on January 18, 2024.

Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Sameer Bajpai stayed the order passed by the Magistrate court noting that before passing the direction a sanction for registration of FIR was not obtained as the revisionist is an SHO.

The sessions court said that after going through the record and hearing submissions of the counsel, the court is of the view that the whole purpose o...