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A Delhi tribunal has acquitted 5 persons accused of arson, rioting and vandalism successful a lawsuit related to the February 2020 north-east Delhi riots.
Additional Sessions Judge Parveen Singh of the Karkardooma Courts acquitted Abdul Sattar, Muhammad Khalid, Hunain, Tanvir and Arif, who were accused of rioting, unlawful assembly and vandalism successful Chand Bagh by a antheral named Tarun.
The complainant had alleged that a mob attacked him and torched his motorcycle adjacent the Bhajanpura petrol pump.
The tribunal noted that portion the Investigating Officer claimed to person shown the pictures of the 5 to the witness, helium could not explicate the root of those pictures. “The assertion connected behalf of the accused that they had been falsely implicated successful this lawsuit successful bid to lick this lawsuit cannot beryllium wholly brushed aside,” the justice observed. The ASJ noted that the prosecution had failed to beryllium its lawsuit beyond tenable uncertainty and cleared the 5 of each charges.
