Court acquits 27 rioting accused
Tis Hazari Court additional sessions judge (ASJ) Bimla Kumari has acquitted 27 people of the charges of attempting to kill policemen and torching a police post following the latter’s bid to nab a suspect in Red Fort bomb blast case in 2000. The court absolved all the accused, including three women, of the charges of being members of an unlawful assembly.
The judge said, “After going through the contradictions in the testimonies of witnesses and several infirmities and pitfalls in the prosecution case, I am of the considered view that the prosecution has miserably failed to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the accused were the members of an unlawful assembly.”
As per the prosecution, 44 persons were alleged to have indulged in rioting, fired at police party and burnt government vehicle, motorcycle, besides setting the police post Yamuna Pushta on fire in central Delhi on June 23, 2000.
The accused were said to be agitated over picking up of one Ishaq Mullah by police in connection with the probe relating to the bomb blast at Red Fort on June 18, 2000.
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