India, Sept. 22 -- The Delhi high court on Monday directed police to preserve the case diary related to the Jafrabad violence during the February 2020 Delhi riots, which resulted in one death.

A bench of Justice Ravinder Dudeja issued the direction while rejecting the petitioner Devangana Kalita's plea seeking its reconstruction. "The petition is partly allowed. As far as the request for preservation is concerned, the interim order (dated December 2) is made absolute. So far as reconstruction of police diary is concerned, the same is rejected," Justice Dudeja said, pronouncing the verdict, a detailed copy of which is awaited.

The court passed the order on Kalita's plea challenging a city court's November 6 order refusing to entertain th...