A court in Delhi has convicted five men of culpable homicide and unlawful assembly charges in a 2020 northeast Delhi rioting case where a mob brutally killed a man. The court, however, acquitted two men of all charges. Additional Sessions Judge Pulastya Pramachala was hearing the case registered by the Dayalpur police station against the seven accused. Special Public Prosecutor Madhukar Pandey appeared in the court on behalf of the Delhi Police.
In its verdict passed last Saturday, the court took note of the evidence before it and said it was established that a riotous mob, armed with deadly weapons, killed Mohsin near the Peer Baba Mazar in the Chand Bagh area on February 25, 2020. The court said the testimonies of four prosecution witnesses left no doubt that five accused persons--Arun, Aman Kashyap, Ashish, Pradeep Rai and Devender Kumar--were part of the mob that assaulted the victim. But there was no evidence to prove specifically that these five accused had assaulted Mohsin, it said, adding that their criminal liability for causing Mohsin's death had to be based on section 149 (unlawful assembly) of the IPC.
