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Delhi Trial Court Acquits Six in 2020 Riots Case After Blasting Police Probe

The judge called the case a false construct of padded evidence, urging the police commissioner to act.

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Noting that being framed in a fake case has led to serious trampling of the right of the accused persons, the court went on to pull up the investigating officer (IO) of the case. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Overview

  • Additional Sessions Judge Parveen Singh cleared Ishu Gupta, Prem Prakash, Raj Kumar, Manish Sharma, Rahul and Amit of rioting and related charges tied to February 25, 2020 violence.
  • In a 41-page order dated August 25, the court found the prosecution’s lone eyewitness, Head Constable Vikas, completely unreliable with respect to the accused.
  • The judge said the investigating officer engaged in egregious padding of evidence that trampled the rights of the accused.
  • Supervising officers, including the station house officer and assistant commissioner of police, were faulted for forwarding a defective chargesheet in a mechanical manner.
  • The order highlighted discrepancies in medico-legal records for police witness Mohammad Nasir and directed that the judgment be sent to the Commissioner of Police for remedial action, following a similar acquittal of six others in July.