Journalist Abhishek Upadhyay has alleged within the Supreme Courtroom {that a} Uttar Pradesh Police staff entered the residence of former Delhi Mayor Farhad Suri in Nizamuddin East in the course of the intervening night time of August 22–23 whereas purportedly looking for him.
In a further affidavit filed on September 3 in his pending writ petition, Upadhyay relied on a publicly obtainable report in regards to the alleged incident. As per the report, Suri had approached the police in search of registration of FIR towards the police personnel. He clarified that he was not personally current at Suri’s residence and has sought official data to ascertain what the police staff was doing there.
Upadhyay has requested the court docket to name for data together with the authorisation for the Delhi go to, motion particulars of the police personnel and autos, communications with Delhi Police, and CCTV/body-camera and different digital data.
He highlights that the identical police officer who had led the staff which reached Suri’s residence is concerned within the police motion towards him.
Upadhyay had filed the writ petition difficult the FIR registered by the Ghaziabad police over an alleged road-rage incident. He has contended that the FIR has been concocted with the mala fide intention of harassing him over his reportage exposing the Ram temple donation rip-off and different corruption circumstances associated to authorities departments.
The Supreme Courtroom had last month granted him safety from coercive motion in a Ghaziabad road-rage FIR, whereas asking the police to offer him a replica of the FIR.
Upadhyay subsequently filed an application after the Ghaziabad Crime Department sought intensive digital details about his X account from the platform, together with IP and device-related information courting again to June 1-weeks earlier than the alleged August 18 road-rage incident. He argued that such information might expose his journalistic sources, notably those that offered data for his Ram Temple donation investigation.
Within the newest affidavit, Upadhyay has argued that the alleged Delhi operation, seen alongside the opposite police actions towards him, warrants judicial scrutiny into whether or not investigative powers have been used selectively or disproportionately.
In a associated improvement, Suri has filed a separate writ petition in search of FIR towards the police officers who carried out the alleged unauthorised raid of his home.
The petitioner is represented by Advocate Anoop Prakash Awasthi.
Case: ABHISHEK UPADHYAY Versus STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH AND ORS. | W.P.(Crl.) No. 339/2026
