New Delhi: Citing a Judicial Precedent in the cases of Godhra Riot Gujarat, the Delhi Court separated the trial of three Hindus and two Muslims after facing allegations against them in the case related to the alleged murder of a 24-year-old man in the northeast of Delhi riots.
In Godhra cases, the Gujarat High Court has separated the trial of the two different communities that were accused of being fir.
In the case of the current, the additional session of Judge Vinod Yadav said that it was right to separate the trial of the people accused of belonging to two different communities so that their defense was not prejudiced.
After the defendant was innocent on the accusations of their framed and the court begged, the court noted that the “distinctive situation” has arisen whether the trial can be allowed to continue “with various accusations of different religions constituted to act under two different conspiracies and assemblies who violates the law “.
The judge said this would definitely harm the defense of those accused of various religions.
When a similar situation has emerged before the Gujarat court conducted a trial of Godhra riots, “the problem was referred to the Gujarat High Court in a criminal reference entitled ‘Additional Session Judge V Gujarat State 2011 …” said Yadav, added that the trial court court court .
“Given the court precedents mentioned above, this court also considers it appropriate to separate the trial of people accused so that their defense may not even be prejudiced,” said the judge.
He directed court staff to post a separate session case number in FIR now and said the existing Chargesheet had to be treated as a chargesheet for three accused, Kuldeep, Deepak Thakur and Deepak Yadav, while other Chargesheets would be treated as Chargesheet for Mohd Furkan and Mohd Irshad.
The court further directs DCP (Crime Branch) to provide a complete set of chargesheets in physical form within two weeks from Tuesday.
Separate trials in the case of Riot Delhi Northeast
