A Delhi court on Thursday granted a five-day relief in the case of the murder of Intelligence Bureau (IB) officer Ankit Sharma in the 2020 riots in Delhi in the North-East area. The Karkardooma Court is now set to deliver its verdict on June 11 in the case of AAP councillor and 10 others.
In addition, more Sessions Judge Praveen Singh was to hear the judgment on Thursday, but postponed the case for a further date. The case has been one of the most prominent ones involving the February 2020 communal violence in North-East Delhi.
Prosecuting attorney Yow Eswatide Kothari stated that Ankit Sharma went home from work on Feb. 25, 2020, before leaving again. When he failed to come home, his family started to look for him. Later, local residents told them that they had found a body thrown in the Khajuri kaushalo near the Chand bagh area.
Later, Sharma’s body was found in the drain. Later, his father, Ravinder Kumar, lodged a complaint against Tahir Hussain and others, claiming that his son was murdered. The complainant alleged that the accused had met at Hussain’s office and had later disposed of Sharma’s body after she was killed.
The court in March 2023 framed charges against 11 accused persons, including Hussain. criminal offences of rioting, rioting with deadly weapons, aggravating the enmity about or hatred between citizens of different religions, murder and criminal conspiracy under the Indian Penal Code were laid against the accused. Hussain was also called up on charges of abetment and making declarations which could incite public mischief.
The case relates to the uproar in North-East Delhi following the Citizenship Amendment Act protests in February 2020.