New Delhi: On Thursday, a Delhi court dismissed bail applications filed by ex-Aam Aadmi Party Councillor Tahir Hussain in three cases, because there is visual proof of his active function in the riots of Delhi and that he utilized his muscle power and political influence to go about as a kingpin in its arranging.
The past political head had moved the court looking for bail in three cases relating to the Delhi riots case. Other than these three, Hussain is an accused in eight different cases for communal riots. In February, conflicts between the pro citizenship law backers and anti- CAA dissenters had spiraled wild, leaving 53 individuals dead and 748 individuals wounded.
Dismissing the three appeals, Additional Sessions Judge Vinod Yadav stated: “It is prima facie apparent that he used his muscle power and political clout to act as a kingpin in planning, instigating and fanning the flames of a communal conflagration. I believe that there is adequate material on record to consider that the applicant was present at the location and was exhorting the rioters.”
The court additionally said that he utilized rioters as “human weapons“, who on his prompting might have killed anyone.
The judge included, “The 2020 riots of Delhi are a gaping wound in the conscience of a country aspiring to be a major global power. The allegations against the applicant are extremely grave in nature.”
The court proceeded to state that there is sufficient visual proof of independent witnesses to assume that the petitioner was available at the spot of crime and was urging the rioters.
The Additional Sessions Judge stated, “I am reminded of a famous English saying which says that when you choose to play with embers, you cannot blame the wind to have taken the spark a bit too far and spread the fire. So, when the applicant is at receiving end presently, he cannot pass on the buck by solely taking a plea that since he did not partake physically in the riots, so he has no role to play in the riots.”
“It involves record that public observers in the aforementioned issues are occupants of a similar area and whenever released on bail at this stage, the chance of the candidate undermining or scaring them can’t be precluded. Considering current realities and conditions of the case(s) in entirety, I don’t discover it to be a fit case for the award of bail,” the Additional Sessions Judge included.
Senior supporter K.K. Manon and advocate Uditi Bali, representing Hussain, had contended that their client is being dishonestly accused in the issues by the “investigating agency and his political rivals with the sole intention of harassing him by abuse of the machinery of law”.
Manoj Chaudhary, Special Public Prosecutor (SPP) had eagerly opposed the three bail appeals alleging that Tahir Hussain’s call detail records affirm his presence at or around the location of the crime on the dates of the occurrences.
