Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Amitabh Rawat of the Karkardooma Court on Tuesday adjourned the hearing in the application filed by various accused persons seeking the status of the investigation in the case pertaining to the alleged conspiracy behind the 2020 northeast Delhi riots till October 25.
The judge was hearing the applications filed by accused Devangana Kalita, Natasha Narwal, Asif Iqbal Tanha, Meeran Haider, and Athar Khan.
The matter is listed for further hearing on October 25, 2023, at 12 noon.
Accused Khalid Saifi, Faizan Khan, Ishrat Jahan, Sharjeel Imam, Safoora Zargar, Saleem Malik, Shifa-ur-Rehman, Shadab Ahamd and Gulfisha Fatima have adopted the same arguments.
Whereas, accused Saleem Khan, Tasleem Ahmad, Umar Khalid, and Tahir Hussain have taken a stand that they want the arguments on the point of charge to begin by the prosecution, without any further delay.
Earlier, SPP Prasad had submitted before the court that the application was “not maintainable”.
He had argued that this matter of ‘status on investigation’ was between the court and the prosecution. He had contended, “At present, I am only on the maintainability of the application. So far as the case is ripe or not, I will demonstrate that before the court”.
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