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A Delhi tribunal connected Friday (January 9, 2026) remanded 8 radical to a 12-day judicial custody for their alleged engagement successful the unit that broke retired during a demolition thrust adjacent a mosque successful New Delhi successful the Turkman Gate area.
Five others accused of pelting stones adjacent the Faiz-e-Elahi mosque astatine Turkman Gate sought bail successful the tribunal of Judicial Magistrate Sayesha Chada during the day. The defence counsels alleged that they had been assaulted wrong the jailhouse premises by jailhouse officers.
The tribunal issued a announcement to the Delhi Police successful transportation with the bail exertion filed by the 5 accused. It besides issued a announcement to the jailhouse superintendent, directing them to furnish the aesculapian records of each 5 accused earlier the adjacent hearing.
The defence counsels of Mohammad Arib, Kashif, Adnan, Mohammad Kaif and Sameer sought much clip to hole their arguments for the bail proceeding successful airy of a caller presumption study being filed. The tribunal granted them clip till January 13.
With the caller arrests, constabulary person apprehended 13 people, including a juvenile, truthful far.
During Friday's hearing, 8 much accused — Afaan, Adil, Shahnawaz, Amir Hamza, Ubadullah, Atharr, Mohammad Imran, and Mohammad Imran — were produced earlier the magisterial court.
The tribunal remanded each 8 to judicial custody till January 21. The tribunal noted that the grounds of apprehension had been supplied to each the accused and that, prima facie, the beingness of the accused astatine the tract of unit was apparent.
The defence counsel opposed the remand exertion connected the crushed that the constabulary did not proviso immoderate video grounds corroborating their engagement successful the violence. Delhi Police asserted that each arrests person been made based connected recognition by their constables and CCTV footage wherever the accused were intelligibly visible.
Delhi Police has besides invoked Section 109 (attempt to murder) Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) successful the caller arrests, among different provisions related to rioting and obstructing nationalist servants.
Police submitted that six constabulary unit were injured during the stone-pelting incident, with immoderate injuries successful captious parts of the assemblage similar the head.
The defence counsel submitted determination was nary volition to effort to murder, claiming the injuries were minor. The tribunal stated that determining the gravity of the injuries are taxable to trial.
Advocate Tushar Kadian has been appointed arsenic the Public Prosecutor successful the lawsuit and appeared for the State. Advocate Atul Srivastava has been appointed arsenic the Additional Public Prosecutor (SPP), and appeared for the Delhi Police.
An anti-encroachment thrust adjacent the Faiz-e-Elahi mosque successful the Ramlila Maidan country connected the intervening nighttime of Tuesday and Wednesday triggered unit arsenic galore radical pelted stones astatine constabulary personnel, injuring six of them, including the area's presumption location officer.
Police sources person said the unit was apt triggered by a societal media station which claimed that the mosque, located other the Turkman Gate, was being demolished during the anti-encroachment thrust and radical started gathering there.
They claimed that 150 to 200 radical were progressive successful pelting stones and solid bottles astatine the constabulary unit and Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) workers.
MCD Deputy Commissioner Vivek Kumar had said astir 36,000 quadrate feet of encroached country was cleared during the drive.
A diagnostic centre, a banquet hallway and 2 bound walls were demolished during the thrust that went connected done the night, Kumar said. He besides clarified that the mosque was not damaged successful immoderate way.
