Former Aam Aadmi Party councillor Tahir Hussain and nine others, who were accused of 'mischief by fire or explosive substance with intent to destroy house, etc' in the 2020 Delhi riots case, were discharged on Wednesday. However, they still face charges under the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act, and sections of the IPC pertaining to rioting, rioting with …
While framing charges against two men in a case relating to the North East Delhi riots of 2020, a city Court has said that it would be a travesty of justice to disregard the statement of witnesses on mere account of delay. It attributed the delay in recording of statements to the "double role" that the Police was forced to …
A Delhi Court has framed charges against four men in a case concerning the North East Delhi riots after observing that merely because there name does not appear in the FIR will not discredit the case of the prosecution at all. "FIR is not an encyclopedia but the beginning point of investigation and not naming accused in FIR, that too …
