'Calculated attack': Court frames murder charges against four accused in Delhi riots
Zee News
Charges have also been framed under sections 302 (murder) read with 120B (criminal conspiracy).
New Delhi: Calling it a calculated attack, a Delhi court has framed charges of murder, rioting, and criminal conspiracy against four accused of allegedly killing a man during the riots here last year. Anwar Hussain, Kasim, Shahrukh, and Khalid Ansari are accused of allegedly murdering a man named Deepak by beating him mercilessly near Ambedkar College on February 25, 2020. He died due to hemorrhagic shock, as per the post mortem report.
Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat framed charges under requisite sections against the accused persons and explained it to them in vernacular in the presence of their lawyers, to which they pleaded not guilty and claimed trial in the case.
The judge said, "By the manner of their mobilization and intent as construed from their conduct, the said unlawful assembly can be said to have conducted itself for riots and other offences like the murder of deceased Deepak, in the prosecution of their common object."
