A city court on Tuesday directed the Delhi Police to file a report on a plea by Delhi Environment Minister Imran Hussain seeking preservation of the CCTV footage at the Secretariat capturing an alleged incident of his mobbing by officials and staff, a day after the purported assault on Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash.

Hussain has lodged a complaint with the Delhi Police claiming that a day after the alleged assault on the Chief Secretary, he was mobbed by the officials and staff of Delhi Government.

They also raised provocative slogans and prevented him from taking the elevator to his 6th floor office at the Players Building, he claimed in his complaint.

Minister's application came up for hearing on Tuesday before Metropolitan Magistrate (MM) Abhilash Malhotra who directed the Delhi Police to file a status report on March 1, the next date of hearing.

“An application was moved by the complainant (Hussain) today seeking directions for preservation of CCTV footage at Delhi Secretariat capturing the incident in question. Notice be issued to SHO (station house officer) concerned with direction to file report on next date,” the court said. The court also directed the investigating officer (IO) of the case to be present before it along with the case diary on the next date of hearing.

Meanwhile, the Delhi Government Employees' Association has refuted the Minister's allegation. They said that the Minister had arrived at the Secretariat on February 20 when sloganeering was going on against the alleged assault on the Chief Secretary, but nobody manhandled him.