New Delhi, March 29, 2023 (PPI-OT): In yet another travesty of justice, the Delhi High Court has partially set aside a trial court’s order dated February 4, which had discharged 11 persons, including Shrajeel Imam, Asif Iqbal Tanha and Safoora Zargar, in a case registered against them in 2019. This comes after the Delhi Police filed a revision petition against the trial court’s order.
In December 2019 violence erupted at Jamia Millia Islamia after the Indian police and Hindutva goons attacked the demonstrators who were protesting against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act, which was declared anti-minorities, particularly anti-Muslim by experts. However, instead of taking actions against the actual culprits, the police had filed a case against these persons. They were discharged by the trial court on February 4. During the pronouncement of the order on police’s plea on Tuesday, Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma in her order partially reversed the trial court order and framed charges against these persons under various offences, including rioting, unlawful assembly and more. Judge Sharma had on March 23 reserved the judgement on the police’s plea.
The court charged Imam, Zargar, Muhammad Qasim, Mahmood Anwar, Shahzar Raza, Umair Ahmed, Muhammad Bilal Nadeem, Muhammad Shoaib, Muhammad Abuzar and Chanda Yadav under various Sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), as well as Sections of the Prevention of Damage to Public Properties Act. On February 04, Additional Sessions Judge, Justice Arul Verma, had pulled up the police while discharging the accused persons, saying that police were unable to apprehend the actual perpetrators behind the commission of the offence, but surely managed to rope in these 11 accused as “scapegoats”.
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