A court in Delhi has convicted five Hindu men of culpable homicide and unlawful assembly charges in a 2020 northeast Delhi pogrom case where a riotous mob brutally killed a 24-year-old Muslim man.
The court, however, acquitted two men of all charges.
Additional Sessions Judge Pulastya Pramachala was hearing the case registered by the Dayalpur police station against the seven accused, PTI reported.
In its 63-page verdict passed on 30 November, the court took note of the evidence before it and said it was established that a riotous mob, armed with deadly weapons, killed a Muslim man named Mohsin near the Peer Baba Mazar in the Chand Bagh area on 25 February, 2020.
“The prime bone of contention involved in this case revolves around the question of whether the accused persons were among the rioters, who brutally assaulted the victim Mohsin to his death?” the court asked.
But there was no evidence to prove specifically that these five accused had assaulted Mohsin, the court said, adding that their criminal liability for causing Mohsin’s death had to be based on section 149 (unlawful assembly) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
“For want of a specific role attributed to any of these five accused persons for causing head injuries on the victim, I find that their liability should be limited to causing culpable homicide not amounting to murder,” the judge said.
The convicted are Ashish Goli, Arun Munna, Aman Kashyap, Pardeep Rai, and Devender Yadav.
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