New Delhi, Apr 20 (PTI) A court here has acquitted 10 people in a case related to the 2020 Delhi riots, saying the prosecution failed to prove the charges against them.
Additional Sessions Judge Parveen Singh was hearing the case against the accused persons, against whom a case was registered at Bhajanpura police station for various penal offences, including rioting, arson, criminal conspiracy, unlawful assembly and disobedience to an order promulgated by a public servant.
According to the prosecution, the accused were part of a riotous mob that looted and torched a commercial property in the area on February 24, 2020, during the communal riots.
In an order dated April 16, the judge noted that according to the prosecution, accused persons could be identified from a video clip of an incident of looting and vandalism at another nearby commercial property.
“However, despite my best efforts, I could not connect the faces of those rioters with any of the accused present before me today. In these circumstances, I am unable to accept the contention…,” the judge said.
He further said that from the testimonies of two key prosecution witnesses, it was clear that none of them had seen the incident of the shop being looted or torched.
“I find that the prosecution has failed to prove its case beyond all reasonable doubts. All the accused are accordingly acquitted of all the charges framed against them,” the judge said. PTI MNR MNR KVK KVK
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