The Delhi High Court, on Tuesday, deferred the hearing of a plea filed by Congress leader Jagdish Tytler, who is challenging a recent trial court order that framed charges against him related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. The charges include murder, unlawful assembly, rioting, and promoting
The court said that there is sufficient grounds to presume that he abetted the killing of three Sikhs by instigating the mob that attacked Gurudwara Pul Bangash, and some of them set it on fire.
A special court here presiding over the matters related to MPs and MLAs has convicted Maharashtra BJP MLA Tamil Selvan and four others in a 2017 matter on charges including unlawful assembly and voluntarily causing hurt to deter a public servant from his duty.
"A total of 36 people have been arrested on the charges of rioting, damaging public property and for unlawful assembly, over the clash that broke out yesterday between the members of some Hindu organisations and Police in Maharashtra's Kolhapur," said SP Mahendra Pandit on Thursday.
The court said, "The convicts formed an unlawful assembly, the object whereof was to cause maximum damage to the persons belonging to Hindu community as well as their properties and to create fear & insecurity in the minds of the members of the Hindu community."
The court said that an unlawful assembly was formed, with a common objective of attack upon the properties of persons belonging to the Muslim community. The father-son duo has been named with offences relating to rioting, destroying property by fire and being a member of unlawful assembly.
A Delhi Court has convicted a father-Son duo of rioting, vandalism and setting a shop on fire in the Khajuri Khas area during Northeast Delhi riots in February 2020. The court said the convicted duo was part of an unlawful assembly of a mob that indulged in rioting.
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday set aside the trial court's discharge of Sharjeel Imam, Safoora Zargar, Asif Iqbal Tanha and eight others in the Jamia violence case of 2019 while charging them under rioting, unlawful assembly and other offence.
The High court said the accused were part of unlawful assembly and raising slogans and they had broken the first line of barricade and turned violent. They assaulted the police personnel during the protest, they climbed the barricades, the High court said.
The complaint invoked sections of abetment of crime, criminal conspiracy, rioting, rioting armed with a deadly weapon, unlawful assembly, obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions, public nuisance, continuance of nuisance after injunction to discontinue, wrongful restraint
A Court on Friday acquitted four accused of rioting and unlawful assembly during the Delhi riots of February 2020. The court acquitted the accused persons giving them the benefit of the doubt.