New Delhi:
The Delhi police has filed three charge sheets against nine people for allegedly killing three people in three separate cases during riots in north-east Delhi in February.
The charge sheets were filed on Monday before Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Kumar Gautam for the alleged murder of Hamza, Aamin and Bhure Ali.
Earlier, the police said that nine people had died in Ganga Vihar/ Bhagirathi Vihar area on February 25 and 26, but the charge sheets have been filed in relation to only three deaths as the investigation in the matter is on.
“During the investigation, it has been established that a group of Hindus comprising of accused persons – Jatin Sharma, Rishabh Chaudhary, Vivek Panchal, Lokesh Solanki, Pankaj Sharma, Prince, Sumit Chaudhary, Ankit Chaudhary and Himanshu Thakur, along with other identified and unidentified rioters – became active in Ganga Vihar/ Bhagirathi Vihar area since the morning of February 25 to 26 midnight and bludgeoned nine Muslim persons to death and injured several persons in Bhagirathi Vihar and other area,” the police said in all the three charge sheets.
The final reports were filed under various sections including 147, 148 and 149 (related to rioting), 302 (murder), 201 (destruction of evidence) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code. The court put up the charge sheets for consideration on July 13.
