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A Delhi tribunal has acquitted 4 men accused successful the 2020 Delhi riots case, saying it would beryllium "dangerous" to trust connected the testimonies of 2 constabulary unit arsenic their versions were contradicted by the probe grounds and different evidence.
Additional Sessions Judge Parveen Singh was proceeding the lawsuit against Sumit Kumar, Anuj, Rahul and Sachin successful a lawsuit related to the alleged burning of an auto-rickshaw and vandalising and mounting ablaze a store successful Karawal Nagar during the riots.
In an bid dated May 19, the tribunal said, "I find that PW6 and PW7 (police officers) are not credible witnesses and it volition beryllium unsafe to trust upon their testimonies and find for the prosecution against the accused. I accordingly find that the prosecution has failed to beryllium its lawsuit against the accused." According to the prosecution, complainant Wazid had alleged that rioters acceptable his auto-rickshaw connected occurrence connected February 25, 2020, portion different complainant, Shamshad, alleged that his store was vandalised and torched by rioters.
The prosecution claimed CCTV footage helped place the accused and relied chiefly connected the testimonies of constabulary unit H.C. Mithilesh and ASI Junaid, who claimed to person witnessed a mob attacking an car operator and torching the conveyance and shop.
An FIR was registered astatine the Karawal Nagar constabulary presumption and charges of rioting, unlawful assembly, disobedience to an bid duly promulgated by a nationalist servant and mischief causing harm were framed against each the accused.
The court, however, recovered superior discrepancies successful the grounds and noted that complainant Wazid could not beryllium produced during the trial. It besides observed that Shamshad had said that the incidental astatine his store occurred successful his lack and helium could not place immoderate idiosyncratic progressive successful the rioting oregon arson.
"Even if the physics grounds which has been produced by the prosecution successful the signifier of CCTV footage is accepted to beryllium true, the CCTV footage does not pertain to immoderate of the incidents connected the ground of which charges person been framed successful this case," the Judge said.
The tribunal further noted that portion the constabulary witnesses claimed they saw the burning of the car astatine Karawal Nagar Chowk, probe records showed the existent determination was astir 1.5 km distant connected Pushta Road.
"The testimonies of some these witnesses are wholly falsified by what had been deposed by the IOs (investigating officers) astir the spot of the incident," the tribunal said.
The tribunal subsequently acquitted the 4 accused of each charges.
