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The post-mortem study of Ratan Lal showed a firearm coiled and 21 outer injuries. (Express File)
A Delhi tribunal connected Friday ordered the framing of charges for the offences of murder, arson, and dacoity against 25 accused successful the execution of Head Constable Ratan Lal during the 2020 Northeast Delhi riots. Two accused were discharged aft the tribunal did not find credible grounds against them.
In this case, determination were 27 accused who were, arsenic per the Delhi Police, portion of a riotous mob that attacked a constabulary squad astatine the Chand Bagh protestation tract connected February 24, 2020, erstwhile they were stopped from blocking the Wazirabad main road.
“The Constitution does not vest close to immoderate protester, to usage unit oregon to battle anyone oregon to execution anyone oregon to harm immoderate spot oregon to rob anyone. Therefore, the statement that this accused was exercising his law rights, is wholly misconceived,” noted the tribunal of Additional Sessions Judge Pulastya Pramachala successful its 115-page order.
“The protesters not lone gathered to show protestation against CAA/NRC, rather they came good equipped with weapons with a mindset to usage the aforesaid against the constabulary force,” the tribunal added.
The post-mortem study of Ratan Lal showed a firearm coiled and 21 outer injuries. Along with Lal, the past lawman commissioner of constabulary (DCP) and adjunct commissioner of constabulary (ACP) had besides sustained superior injuries during. As galore arsenic 50 different policemen had besides been injured. In all, 700 persons were injured during the riots and 50 were killed.
“After the effort to artifact Main Wazirabad Road connected February 23, 2020, was neutralised by police, the accent connected joining the protestation successful ample numbers connected February 24 and carrying weapons shows that the organisers and speakers of the protestation framed a clear-cut mindset to onslaught upon constabulary force,” the tribunal noted adding that the onslaught appeared to beryllium portion of a “well-thought strategy”.
As per the prosecution, the riots were the effect of a months-long “deep-rooted” conspiracy allegedly hatched aft the Citizenship Amendment Bill got a motion from the furniture successful December 2019.
The “conspiracy” was the alleged instauration of 23 protestation sites (which operated 24×7) successful “Muslim bulk areas” adjacent to mosques and main roads. The prosecution besides alleges it that earlier the riots of February 2020, a “replica” of the riots took spot successful December 2019 with “similar characters and modus operandi”.
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