New Delhi, 18 September (IANS) on Thursday blamed a court here for six people for participating in a rioting crowd, with a carpenter’s shop in Sadatpur expansion during the 2020 Delhi riots.
Judge Parveen Singh of additional sessions of Karcardoma Court, Hariom Gupta, Basant Kumar Mishra, Gorakh Nath, Rohit Gautam, Kapil Pandey, and Bhima Sant participated with IPC with sections 147, 148, 188, 435, and 450, which with sections 149, and 450 to 450 to 450 with sections 147, 148, 188, 435, and 450. Fire).
“The prosecution has proved beyond all appropriate doubts that around 25.02.2020, around 11-11.30 pm, the accused was a part of the riots of 100 to 150 persons (who was carrying Dandas, Stones etc.), which was thrown out of the shop outside the complaint, which comes out of firefighting.
The case arose from the complaint of the shop owner Mohammad. Vekel, who claimed that the rioters set their carpenter shop on February 25, 2020, causing a loss of about Rs 1.5 lakh.
In the case, the beat officer of an important witness area was Head Constable Sandeep, who was present on the site during his duty.
Raksha argued that he was a “witness” and necessary for his testimony. However, the court dismissed the dispute, saying: “Just because a witness is a police witness, his testimony cannot be abandoned. He is a witness like any other witness, and he will have to test on the touchstone of reliability rather than his profession.”
“Therefore, if the testimony of a police witness is found to be reliable, the said testimony can be trusted to reach the discovery of guilt against the accused,” said this.
The verdict also stated that Sandeep’s presence was supported by duty roster, dismissing the dispute that his presence on the site was impossible. In addition, it was not found any evidence to maintain the charge under Section 436, given: “There is no evidence that it was done with the intention to cause destruction in the mischief building in which the complainant’s shop was located.”
Eventually, the court placed six convicts of the illegal assembly, violating prohibitive orders under rioter, fire mischief, house-hospital and Section 144 CRPC with deadly weapons.
“All the accused accordingly are convicted for punishmentable U/S188 IPC, U/S147R/W Section 149 IPC, U/S 148R/W Section 149 IPC, Section 450R/W Section 149 IPC and Section 435R/W Section 149 IPC and are obtained from crime.
The court will hear separate culprits on the quantity of punishment.
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