NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Monday granted bail to a person accused of being a member of a mob that”brutally assaulted” a police channel, through the riots in north west Delhi this past year, which caused the departure of a head constable and irreparable harms to two senior officers. Justice Suresh K Kait allowed the aid to the accused to the grounds that the fourth complaint sheet is already registered in the event trial will take significant quantity of time and also the petitioner, that had been in prison because November 2020,”can’t be forced to float behind bars for an extended time period”. The court stated that petitioner — Mohd Mansoor — will be released on bond”forthwith” on providing a personal bond of Rs 20,000 with just one surety of the like quantity. Additionally, it directed the accused”won’t directly or negatively affect any witness and will appear before the trial court as and if guided”. Advocate Tanveer Ahmed Mir, looking to the accused, throughout the event had informed the court his client wasn’t named in the FIR and also the following three bill sheets in the situation. He had been appointed just in the fourth cost sheet along with the allegation against him was that he had been viewed as a member of the telescope that was pelting stones,” Mir’d stated. He’d told the court his client was struggling with stern Transient Psychotic Disorder (ATPD) in the time of this episode on February 24 final year. Mir had argued that no weapon has been recovered by the accused along with a co-accused from the case is already granted bond. The prosecution had compared the bail saying that he had been a part of the mob that pelted stones on on-duty authorities employees. After hearing both sides,” Justice Kait stated that based on CCTV footage there wasn’t any uncertainty that Mansoor was a part of the mob that pelted stones to law enforcement, however, also the identification of the accused by the prosecution prior to the trial court and the high court had been”at variance”. The high court stated that the problems concerning psychological wellbeing of the accused and if he planned to cause harm to the police employees were matters of both sides might need to make their case prior to the trial court. The high court stated it wasn’t commenting about the merits of this situation and also directed that the accused have been released on bond. Communal clashes had broken in northeast Delhi on February 24, 2020 after violence involving citizenship legislation fans and protesters spiralled out of control leaving 53 people dead and about 200 injured.
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