Hyderabad, July 27 -- A Delhi court has directed the registration of a new FIR for a targeted assault on a Muslim family during the 2020 North-East Delhi pogrom, in a rare judicial recognition of individual victim accounts about the violence.

The order was issued by Judicial Magistrate First Class Isra Zaidi at Karkardooma Courts, on a complaint filed by Rahees Ahmed. The court noted that the complaint "disclosed commission of grave and cognizable offences," and that the allegations could not be clubbed with a general FIR.

"Such grave allegations cannot be allowed to be diluted or bypassed merely by clubbing with a general FIR," the magistrate said.

Ahmed claimed that on the day of violence, his family was targeted by a mob armed with ...