Aastha Thakur
Published on: 07 November 2022 at 13:50 IST
In the Delhi Riots proceedings, a Delhi court filed charges under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) against former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) councillor Tahir Hussain and others for attempted murder, criminal conspiracy, and other offences.
Additional Sessions Judge Pulastya Pramachala observed that the accused people’s intention was to kill Hindus, ruin their property, and inflict the maximum amount of injury on them.
In its order the judge has stated that, “…..in furtherance to a criminal conspiracy to commit riot, to kill person from Hindu community and to damage their properties, you formed an unlawful assembly, the object whereof was to cause maximum damage to the property belonging to persons from Hindu community and to kill persons from Hindu community,”
The court stressed that the objective was to “commit vandalism and “riot”, by the use of “force and violence”.
The judge referred the matter of Ajay Goswami, who suffered severe injuries after being shot in the right hip, as another case in this regard.
As a result, the Court filed charges under IPC Sections 149 (illegal assembly), 120B (criminal conspiracy), and 307 (attempt to murder).
Charges were framed against Tahir Hussain, Tanveer Malik, Gulfam, Nazim, Kasim, Shah Alam, Riyasat Ali, Liyakat Ali.
Further, except for Tanveer Malik and Gulfam, charges were also framed under Section 505 (statements conducting to public mischief) of IPC against the other accused persons.
The order stated that, “You all accused persons made statement in the public to other members of the unlawful assembly, of which you all were members, so as to teach a lesson and not to leave persons from Hindu community…”
“…thereby you all accused persons committed an offence punishable us 505 IPC and within my cognizance. And I hereby direct that you all be tried by this Court for the aforesaid charges.”