Lekha G
A Delhi Court passed an order under Additional Sessions Judge Vishal Singh dismissing bail application of Ramzan alias Deepak who was accused of assaulting a police officer for enforcing Covid-19 guidelines.
The Court said, “This Court has no hesitation in observing that rather than following the safety protocols and rules/regulations related to protection from coronavirus, many of pubic persons brazenly violate the rules and put theirs as well as others health and safety at risk. Much more condemnable is the attitude of several people (specifically applicant/accused) who violate the rules and assault public officials who try to reason with them and enforce the safety protocols”.
It further said that the offence committed was “Much graver than a routine offence” and that grant of bail to the accused “Shall result in miscarriage of justice”.
The accused had allegedly assaulted ASI Swatantra with bricks and tore his uniform after being questioned over why he was not wearing a mask. The incident took place when the accused was posted on duty at Baljeet Nagar in Anand Parbat.
Additional Public Prosecutor Reeta Sharma argued that when the accused could not give any satisfactory reason for not wearing mask and subsequently the complainant issued challan against them, they started misbehaving and beating him. In the meantime, their sister, who is a co-accused, came out of her home and had started beating the complainant.
R K Gaur, lawyer for the accused submitted to the Court that the ASI misbehaved with the accused on a petty issue and because of which there was a quarrel among them and further denied the allegation that the accused used bricks to hurt the official.
The police further contended that there were several eye witnesses to the incident and there was imminent likelihood that the accused could threaten the eye witnesses if released on bail.