Delhi courtroom convicts AAP MLAs for rioting, attacking policemen

By PTI

NEW DELHI: A courtroom right here has convicted AAP MLAs Akhilesh Pati Tripathi and Sanjeev Jha for being a part of a mob that attacked policemen at Burari police station in north Delhi in 2015.

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Vaibhav Mehta additionally convicted 15 others in a case of rioting and inflicting harm to police personnel at a police station.

Besides the MLAs, the courtroom additionally convicted Balram Jha, Shyam Gopal Gupta, Kishore Kumar, Lalit Mishra, Jagdish Chandra Joshi, Narender Singh Rawat, Neeraj Pathak, Raju Malik, Ashok Kumar, Ravi Prakash Jha, Ismail Islam, Manoj Kumar, Vijay Pratap Singh, Heera Devi, and Yashwant.

They have been discovered responsible of offences beneath Sections 147 (rioting), 186 (obstructing public servant in discharge of public features), 332 (voluntarily inflicting harm to discourage public servant from his obligation), and 149 (each member of illegal meeting responsible of offence commit­ted within the prosecution of frequent object) of IPC.

The courtroom will hear the case on the quantum of sentence on September 21, the place they might get a most three-year jail time period.

“This court is of the view that the prosecution has been able to prove beyond doubt that the accused persons namely Sanjeev Jha and Akhilesh Pati Tripathi were part of the unlawful assembly… and were part of the mob and they had indulged in sloganeering and had provoked the crowd, and encouraged them to get violent, and as a result of which they resorted to stone pelting thereby causing injuries on some police officials,” the decide stated in a 149-page judgement handed on September 7.

The decide additionally held that each the lawmakers have been additionally a part of the illegal meeting which had obstructed the police officers from doing their duties.

According to the prosecution, the incident came about on the night time of February 20, 2015, when a mob attacked the police personnel at Burari police station and broken property.

The mob was demanding the custody of two males “allegedly to beat them up” arrested and dropped at the police station.

The police had tried to pacify the gang however the MLAs joined the mob and attacked them and resorted to stone pelting, the prosecutor advised the courtroom.

The decide held that the prosecution witnesses have been “consistent” of their statements on the purpose of presence of the 2 legislators on the place of the incident and had indicated that they weren’t solely “active participants but in fact leading the crowd”.

Besides, the 2 males have been acknowledged to have provoked the mob as part of a “common object of the unlawful assembly” to be able to “teach police officials a lesson and to overawe the police by force.” The judgment, nevertheless, acquitted 10 individuals within the case.

NEW DELHI: A courtroom right here has convicted AAP MLAs Akhilesh Pati Tripathi and Sanjeev Jha for being a part of a mob that attacked policemen at Burari police station in north Delhi in 2015.

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Vaibhav Mehta additionally convicted 15 others in a case of rioting and inflicting harm to police personnel at a police station.

Besides the MLAs, the courtroom additionally convicted Balram Jha, Shyam Gopal Gupta, Kishore Kumar, Lalit Mishra, Jagdish Chandra Joshi, Narender Singh Rawat, Neeraj Pathak, Raju Malik, Ashok Kumar, Ravi Prakash Jha, Ismail Islam, Manoj Kumar, Vijay Pratap Singh, Heera Devi, and Yashwant.

They have been discovered responsible of offences beneath Sections 147 (rioting), 186 (obstructing public servant in discharge of public features), 332 (voluntarily inflicting harm to discourage public servant from his obligation), and 149 (each member of illegal meeting responsible of offence commit­ted within the prosecution of frequent object) of IPC.

The courtroom will hear the case on the quantum of sentence on September 21, the place they might get a most three-year jail time period.

“This court is of the view that the prosecution has been able to prove beyond doubt that the accused persons namely Sanjeev Jha and Akhilesh Pati Tripathi were part of the unlawful assembly… and were part of the mob and they had indulged in sloganeering and had provoked the crowd, and encouraged them to get violent, and as a result of which they resorted to stone pelting thereby causing injuries on some police officials,” the decide stated in a 149-page judgement handed on September 7.

The decide additionally held that each the lawmakers have been additionally a part of the illegal meeting which had obstructed the police officers from doing their duties.

According to the prosecution, the incident came about on the night time of February 20, 2015, when a mob attacked the police personnel at Burari police station and broken property.

The mob was demanding the custody of two males “allegedly to beat them up” arrested and dropped at the police station.

The police had tried to pacify the gang however the MLAs joined the mob and attacked them and resorted to stone pelting, the prosecutor advised the courtroom.

The decide held that the prosecution witnesses have been “consistent” of their statements on the purpose of presence of the 2 legislators on the place of the incident and had indicated that they weren’t solely “active participants but in fact leading the crowd”.

Besides, the 2 males have been acknowledged to have provoked the mob as part of a “common object of the unlawful assembly” to be able to “teach police officials a lesson and to overawe the police by force.” The judgment, nevertheless, acquitted 10 individuals within the case.