Delhi riots in Feburary this yr left 53 useless, 200 injured and tons of homeless.
New Delhi:
A Delhi courtroom on Thursday took cognisance of a chargesheet filed by the Delhi Police towards suspended AAP councillor Tahir Hussain and others underneath the provisions of stringent Illegal Actions Prevention Act in reference to the violence that erupted within the northeast components of the nationwide capital in February this yr.
Extra Classes Decide Amitabh Rawat directed Delhi Police to produce the copies of the chargesheet to the accused individuals and listed the matter for additional listening to on September 21. The courtroom additionally asks the accused individuals to seem earlier than it on the following date of listening to.
The chargesheet named 15 accused individuals together with suspended AAP councillor Tahir Hussain, Pinjra Tod members Natasha Narwal and Devangana Kalita, former Congress councillor Ishrat Jahan, scholar activist Safoora Zargar, Md Parvez Ahmed, Md Iliyas, Saifi Khalid, Miran Haider, Asif Iqbal Tanha, Shadab Ahmed, Tasleem Ahmed, Saleem Malik, Md Saleem Khan and Athar Khan.
On March 6, the Crime Department had registered an FIR underneath a number of sections of the India Penal Code (IPC) concerning a legal conspiracy to trigger communal riots within the nationwide capital from February 23 to 26. On the identical day, investigation of the case was transferred to the Particular Cell.
On April 19, the investigating company invoked Sections 13, 16, 17, and 18 of the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act, 1967 within the case.
A trial courtroom had, on August 13, granted extra time to Delhi Police to probe the matter and prolonged the time for finishing the investigation until September 17 on an software filed by the prosecution underneath Part 43D(2)(b) of the UAPA for extension of time.
In response to the Delhi Police, over 250 chargesheets have been filed in reference to the northeast Delhi violence instances towards 1,153 accused individuals.
The Delhi Police, in its chargesheet, had stated that a deep-rooted conspiracy had led to the violence within the nationwide capital between February 24 and 26 this yr.
At the very least 53 individuals have been killed and tons of of others have been injured within the violence which erupted between two teams supporting and opposing the Citizenship Modification Act (CAA) within the northeast a part of the nationwide capital.
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