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News Desk: A Delhi court on Thursday discharged AAP councillor Tahir Hussain’s brother Shah Alam and two others in a case related to alleged loot and vandalization of a shop during the riots in February 2020 at Delhi’s Chand Bagh area. The court also slammed the Delhi police over its probe into the riot that took place in the national capital on February 2020 and termed it as ‘callous and indolent’.
What did the court say?
“This case is a colossal wastage of the hard-earned money of taxpayers in which the police merely tried to pull the wool over the court’s eyes and nothing else.
There was no CCTV footage of the incident to confirm the presence of the accused at the spot, no independent eye witness, and no evidence regarding the criminal conspiracy.
I am not able to restrain myself from observing that when history will look back at the worst communal riots since partition in Delhi, it is the failure of investigating agency to conduct a proper investigation by using latest scientific methods will surely torment the sentinels of democracy.
The case seemed to have been solved merely by filing the charge sheet without any real effort to trace out the eye witnesses, real accused persons, and technical evidence.
The probe lacked sensitivity and skillfulness.
This court cannot permit such cases to meander mindlessly in the corridors of the judicial system, sweeping away precious judicial time of this court when the same is the open and shut case.
After investigating this matter for so long, the police presented only five witnesses — the victim, Duty Officer, formal witness, investigating officer (IO), and a constable, who had identified the three accused.
The delay on the part of the constable to report the incident gives an impression that he has been planted in the Delhi riots case.
No real or effective investigation has been carried out and the police have just tried to show the case as solved merely by recording the statement of the constable, that too at a belated stage.
The evidence brought on record by the investigating agency in the case in hand miserably falls short for framing charges against the accused persons. Accordingly, all the three accused persons are discharged from the case”
