A Delhi Court on Tuesday discharged two accused of the allegation of burning property during the North East Delhi riots. On the basis of photographs, the Court noted that the case of destruction of property by fire is not made out against the accused persons. This case was registered in Dayal Pur police station under rioting and other sections.

New Delhi [India], October 19 (ANI): A Delhi Court, hearing North East Delhi riots cases, on Wednesday discharged former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain and nine other accused persons for the offence of committing mischief by fire or explosive substance with intent to destroy property, in a case related to riots.

New Delhi [India], October 1 (ANI): A Delhi Court hearing the Northeast Delhi riots case has recently discharged five accused for the offence of setting shops on fire during the riots in February 2020 in the Karawal Nagar area.

New Delhi [India], September 29 (ANI): A Delhi Court on Thursday discharged 10 accused persons of arson charges during the North East Delhi riots in February 2020.

New Delhi [India], July 8 (ANI): A Delhi court has framed charges of rioting, attempts to murder and dacoity against three persons for allegedly attacking a man with a sword during the 2020 Northeast Delhi riots.

New Delhi Sep 22 PTI A Delhi court Wednesday dropped charges of arson against ten people accused of allegedly looting shops during the February 2020 riots saying the police was trying to cover up a flaw and clubbing incidents of two different dates The case was registered on the basis of three complaints -- one Birjpal stated that his rented shop was looted by a riotous mob at Brijpuri road on February 25 while Diwan Singh claimed that two of his shops were looted on February 24 Revoking arson charges Additional Sessions Judge Vinod Yadav noted the complainants did not state a single word regarding the riotous mob committing mischief by fire or explosive substance in their initial statements Diwan Singh in his supplementary statement stated however that the riotous mob put his shop on fire to which the court said that the investigating agency cannot cover up the flaw by recording the supplementary statements if the offence of arson was not there in initial complaints made to the police The judge further said that arson charges cannot be invoked merely on the basis of statements of police witnesses who were posted as beat officers in the area on the date of the incident ASJ Yadav said that he is unable to comprehend how an incident that took place on February 24 can be clubbed with the incident which occurred on February 25 unless and until there is clear evidence that the same rioters were operating on both dates In view of the aforesaid discussion I am of the considered view that ingredients of Section 436 IPC mischief by fire or explosive substance are not at all made out from the material produced on record by the investigating agency the judge said The ten accused are Mohd Shahnawaz Mohd Shoaib Shahrukh Rashid Azad Ashraf Ali Parvez Mohd Faizal Rashid Mohd Tahir The other sections invoked in the chargesheet such as Sections 147 rioting 148 rioting armed with a deadly weapon 149 unlawful assembly 188 disobedience to order by public servant 354 assault 392 robbery 427 mischief 452 house trespass 153-A promoting disharmony on grounds of religion 506 criminal intimidation are exclusively triable by a Magistrate ASJ Yadav said He ordered for the case to be transferred to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Communal clashes had broken out in northeast Delhi in February 2020 after violence between the Citizenship Amendment Act supporters and its protesters spiraled out of control leaving at least 53 people dead and over 700 injured PTI AAK SA