New Delhi: A Delhi court has granted bail to a man in a northeast Delhi riots case, saying there was no CCTV footage of the incident and the victim did not identify the accused when his statement was recorded the first time.
Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat granted the relief to Osama on furnishing a bail bond of Rs 25,000 with one surety of like amount in the case related to gunshot injuries received by one Rohit Shukla during the riots at Maujpur Chowk.
The court said the victim did not identify Osama when his statement was recorded in March but in another statement recorded in April, he identified the accused as allegedly being a part of the unlawful assembly.
Rohit had given a statement on March 9, 2020, but had not disclosed the identity of the applicant. However, he had given another statement on April 1, 2020, whereby he stated that on February 24, 2020, at about 1.30 pm there were two groups of people, who were shouting slogan and protesting against CAA and NRC. In the crowd, one Sonu Chikna and his brother Aatir and Osama and were shouting slogans...
The crowd got violent and started stone-pelting. Out of this crowd, one boy aged 24-25 years having red colour hair wearing a red colour T-shirt and blue color pyjama and his mouth was tied with a handkerchief, came out with a pistol and tried to kill him. He also fired at the witness who received injuries in his left thigh and blood started oozing out. Thereafter, the boy ran away. There is also no CCTV footage of the present incident, the court noted in its order passed on December 19.