New Delhi: The Delhi Court has faced the allegations of riots and burning against four people because it allegedly burned a car accessories shop during last year’s riots, by saying their opinions that the police witness was “interested in” the witness was not legal.
Suraj, Yogender Singh, Ajay, and Gaurav Panchal was accused of being part of a horde of harmful armed riots and burned a Javed Khan coating store in the Shahdara Delhi area on the afternoon of February 25, 2020, according to the police.
The prosecution relied on five witnesses who claimed that they saw 100-150 rioters armed with stems and sticks.
They covered their faces and burned a shop called “Khan Accessories”, eyewitnesses claimed.
Additional Judge Session (ASJ) Amitabh Rawattain Frame Unframed under the necessary part of four was accused and explained to them in vernacular in front of their lawyers, which they asked for innocence and claimed trial in this case.
The judge noted that video recordings showed Suraj and Yogenders near the scene and the Aslam public witnesses specifically identified Ajay and Gaurav as part of a horde of riots.
“I am the view that prosecution has fulfilled the case for a cost purpose Recorded after the delay cannot be the basis for their dismissal because it is a trial problem.
“In addition, the submission of police witnesses was not an independent witness but was interested in the reason for ignoring their statements, without the legal basis,” he said.
Rejecting other arguments accused of being accused of being a fit case to come out because they were not named in FIR, the judge said that FIR was not an encyclopedia but the initial point of the investigation and not the naming was accused of not discrediting a prosecution case at all.
ASJ said that there was a reason to assume that Suraj, Yogender, Ajay and Gaurav violated under the 147 section (riots), 148 (riots, armed with deadly weapons), 427 (damage that caused damage to fifty rupees) from IPC.
Costs have also been framed below section 436 (mischief with fire or explosives), 188 (disobedience to order in a way that is shut down by civil servants), read with section 149 (assembly members who violate the law guilty of the prosecution of common objects).
Communal clashes broke out in Northeast Delhi in February 2020, after violence between supporters of the citizenship law (amendment) and protesters who spin out of control leaving at least 53 injured people.