India, Dec. 12 -- New Delhi

The Delhi High Court on Thursday questioned the basis of petitions seeking an SIT probe into the 2020 Delhi riots on the premise that the Delhi Police's investigation was unreliable, noting that neither the accused nor the victims had challenged the charge sheet in the past six years and that the plea was instead being advanced by "outsiders."

A bench of justices Vivek Chaudhary and Manoj Jain asked the petitioner, Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind, to present concrete evidence to support its plea for reinvestigation and to substantiate its claim that the Delhi Police's probe could not be relied upon.

"Why do we distrust the highest police officials? The person against whom the chargesheet is filed is not coming to court,...