New Delhi: The City Court has a framed accusation of nine people accused of the Northeast Delhi riot case who said it would become a miscarriage of justice to devote witnesses to this stage and dispose of prosecution cases only because their statements were recorded after about a month of accident.
Additional session Judge Virender Bhat said the delay in noting the statement of witnesses seemed unintentional or denied.
“It seems to mention because the situation that applies in the area during and after the riots and, therefore, the defendant cannot claim the discharge only at this score.
True or vice versa from the statement of these witnesses can only be assessed during the trial,” said the court.
These costs include the IPC 147 (riots), 148 (riots, armed with deadly weapons), 149 (unlawful assemblies), 380 (theft), 427 (damage), 436 (mischief with fire or explosives with the intention to Destroying houses, etc.), 452 (home-violations).
Violations demand maximum punishment of a lifetime imprisonment.
The police claimed to be nine defendants allegedly part of a damaging horde and burned public and private nature.
Advice for the defendant claimed that witnesses could not be trusted because their statement had been recorded after delays more than a month.
The court stated, “It should be noted that this case is a branch of communal riots that erupted in Northeast Delhi on February 24, 2020 and continued until February 26 when the situation was controlled by the police and paramilitary forces.
There are several examples of riots, murder, ledge, seizing, regulating the properties Can be moved and immovable, etc.
There is an atmosphere of terror and trauma that apply in the area for several days after the riots.
“Further noted that, as stated by the public prosecutor, the witnesses became very scared so they were reluctant to appear and present the incident version They are in front of the investigation body.
The judge also recorded the submission of prosecution that immediately after the situation became normal to a certain extent, the pandemic resulted in total locking from the second week of March 2020, which was also postponing the record of witness statements.