The Delhi Excessive Courtroom on Tuesday sought a response from the Delhi Police in an everyday bail plea moved by former Aam Aadmi Social gathering (AAP) councillor Tahir Hussain in a homicide case of an Intelligence Bureau (IB) staffer through the 2020 North East Delhi riots.
Justice Anoop Kumar Mendiratta issued a discover to the Delhi Police and posted the matter for consideration on January 15, 2025.
Hussain who was arrested on March 16, 2020 over the alleged killing Ankit Sharma through the 2020 North East Delhi riots is searching for bail on grounds of lengthy interval of incarceration and mentioned that of the 20 prosecution witnesses examined up to now by the trial courtroom, many of the eyewitnesses haven’t supported the prosecution case.
Hussain has additionally highlighted that the co-accused individuals within the case have been granted bail by the Excessive Courtroom.
IB safety assistant Sharma is among the many 53 individuals killed within the communal riots that hit the district. The physique of Sharma, 25, was recovered from a drain in Khajuri Khas close to Chand Bagh. The autopsy report acknowledged that there have been 51 harm marks brought on by sharp-edged weapons and blunt pressure. Sharma’s father, in his criticism lodged at Dayalpur police station, had claimed that he had robust suspicion that his son was killed beneath the orders of Hussain.
Sharma’s father had knowledgeable the police on February 26, 2020, that his son, who had stepped out of the home on February 25 night to see what was taking place in his trouble-torn locality hit by the riots, didn’t return house. The AAP had suspended Hussain after he was named as an accused within the case.
The trial courtroom framed fees towards Hussain and 10 others in March final yr beneath Indian Penal Code sections 147 (punishment for rioting); 148 (rioting, armed with lethal weapon); 153A (selling enmity between completely different teams on grounds of faith, race, native land, residence, language, and so forth); 302 (punishment for homicide); 365 (kidnapping or abduction with intent secretly and wrongfully to restrict particular person); 120B (punishment of legal conspiracy); 149 (each member of illegal meeting responsible of offence dedicated in prosecution of frequent object); 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant); and 153A (wantonly giving provocation with intent to trigger riot).
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