Judge cites possibility of intimidating witnesses
A Delhi court on Wednesday dismissed the bail plea of a man arrested in connection with the death of head constable Rattan Lal during the north-east Delhi riots last year.
Additional Sessions Judge Vinod Yadav noted that the nature of allegations against accused Irshad Ali are “very serious”. The judge remarked that the public witnesses in the case are residents of the same locality as Ali and the possibility of him threatening or intimidating them, if released on bail at this stage cannot be ruled out.
Prima facie opinion
The court also said it was “prima facie evident that at or around the commission of crime, i.e the murder of Rattan Lal, there was nobody present at the roof of Mohan Nursing Home”. “The footage of NDTV does not appear to be contemporaneous to the commission of crime in this case. It is, however, a prima facie opinion which shall be ascertained during the course of trial,” it said.
granted bail to three men accused of
murdering Shahid Alam during the communal carnage in Delhiâs northeast last February.
In a chargesheet filed in June, the Delhi police had claimed that Shahid, 25, a rickshaw driver from Mustafabad, was shot dead by alleged Muslim rioters on the roof of an iron warehouse in Chand Bagh on February 24, 2020. And they had arrested the six accused men in March and April, the police added.
The policeâs investigation had sidestepped a Hindu mob that stood on the roof of Mohan Nursing Home, a multistorey hospital 78 metres away, that day, with one rioter holding a rifle.
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‘Hard to believe accused used riots to cause death of man from own community’
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The case relates to arrest of three men in connection with the death of one Shahid during the north-east Delhi riots.
‘Hard to believe accused used riots to cause death of man from own community’
In a scathing remark over the way a north-east Delhi riots case has been investigated, the High Court on Friday rebuked Delhi Police for arresting three men from the minority community and objecting to their bail with “no evidence whatsoever, either direct or circumstantial or forensic”.
The case relates to the arrest of three men Junaid, Chand Mohan and Irshad in connection with the death of one Shahid, who died after suffering gunshot injury on the rooftop of Saptarishi building during the riots.