By Usha Das / The Times of India
NEW DELHI: A Delhi has granted bail to four people in three murder cases related to the northeast Delhi riots after the sole eyewitness did not identify the accused during his deposition.
Additional sessions judge Virender Bhat granted relief to Ashok Kumar, Jitender Kumar, Ajay and Shubham on furnishing a bail bond of Rs 10,000 with one surety of like amount each. The accused had sought bail after witness Shashi Kant did not identify them.
The court noted that keeping in mind the nature of the deposition of the witness, the special public prosecutor, appearing for police, fairly submitted that he had no objection to the bail applications.
“Considering the nature of the testimony of witness Shashi Kant, which was recorded in this case and taking into account no objection given by the SPP, the bail application is hereby allowed,” it said in similar orders passed on the three cases related to rioting in Dayalpur. It directed the accused not to leave the territory of NCT of Delhi during the trial and to appear before the court on each and every date of hearing.
The cases relate to the alleged murder of Ashfaaq, Zakir and Mehtab, who were caught and severely beaten up by a mob during the communal violence on February 25, 2020, which ultimately led to their death.
A perusal of the postmortem report of deceased Zakir revealed that he had received as many as 22 injuries, out of which seven injuries were so grave in nature that they itself were sufficient to cause death of any person in ordinary course of nature.
A review of the postmortem of Ashfaaq revealed that he had received 31 injuries, out of which one injury was sufficient to cause death under ordinary circumstances. All the injuries were fresh before death. Some of the injuries were caused by a sharp-edged weapon and the rest were due to application of the blunt force.
The postmortem of Mehtab showed that he had received 11 injuries, out of which three injuries were opined to be caused by a sharp-edged sword and were so grave in nature that they itself were sufficient to cause death of any person in ordinary course of nature.
At the stage of hearing of their earlier bail arguments, the court had noted that the eyewitness, who was a resident of the locality, had duly identified the accused allegedly indulging in rioting while one of them was carrying a sword.
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