RIOT-ACCUSED GETS BAIL
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court granted bail to a man accused in two cases related to the north-east Delhi riots, while stating that “the complainants have been made to identify the accused persons as per their own convenience by the police and he was not seen in the video footage”. Additional sessions judge Vinod Yadav granted bail to Deepak (single name), arrested in connection with the violence that happened under the Shastri Park police station, on a personal bond of ₹20,000. “Multiple statements of complainants were recorded in the matter from time to time. It was only on June 2 --i.e at the time of arrest of the applicant (Deepak) -- that the complainants were called by the police to the spot and for the first time that they identified him. Whether that identification is enough to connect the accused in the matter is a matter for trial as the complainants have been made to identify the accused persons as per their own convenience by the police,” the judge said in his order on July 29.
Riots: HC quizzes officer over circular
NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Friday asked the Delhi Police to produce before it “five communications issued on receipt of any intelligence input” after special commissioner Praveer Ranjan told the court that directing personnel to be “careful” while making arrests in connection with the north-east Delhi riots was a “routine practice”. The court was hearing a plea by families of two victims of the February riots, challenging the July 8 circular by Ranjan. The plea, filed by advocate Mehmood Pracha on the basis of a news report, had sought quashing of the circular. According to the news report, the special commissioner had given out a circular that there was a degree of resentment in the Hindu community against the arrest of certain Hindu persons, and directing investigating officers that they should be careful in the future when making arrests, and that arrests of persons should be made only after discussion of the evidence with special public prosecutors...,” the plea had said.