2020 Riots: Delhi High Court requests that police reply to Pathan’s bail request

The Delhi High Court requested the city police’s statement on Thursday about Shahrukh Pathan’s bail request. Pathan was shown on national television openly brandishing a rifle at a police officer during the riots in northeast Delhi in 2020.

The Delhi Police were given notice of Pathan’s bail request by Justice Jyoti Singh, and they were given four weeks to respond. Before the next hearing date of April 16, the high court also ordered that Pathan’s nominal roll, which details his behavior while incarcerated, be turned in.

Give notice. The State’s prosecutor acknowledges receipt of the notification and requests four weeks to provide a progress update. Before the following date, let the nominal roll be requisitioned, the court ordered.

Pathan’s attorney said at the hearing that his client had been charged with attempted murder, a crime carrying a maximum sentence of ten years in prison. Furthermore, nobody was hurt in this instance.

On the grounds that Pathan had been detained for the previous four years, he requested bail. In order to support his opposition to the bail plea, the prosecution begged the court to additionally request a report from the prison about the accused’s behavior.

Pathan has appealed the trial court’s decision to reject his bail request on December 14 of last year. He requested the release on the basis that he had been detained since March 2020 and that almost ninety witnesses had not yet been questioned. His attorney said that he could not be imprisoned for “eternity.”

The issue concerned Pathan firing shots at a Delhi Police head constable as he was waving a weapon during the communal disturbances in Jafrabad on February 24, 2020, as the trial court had remarked.

A formal complaint was filed against him under multiple sections of the Indian Penal Code. These sections include rioting, possessing a deadly weapon, unlawful assembly, impeding the performance of public functions by a public servant, inciting religious hostility between groups, using force or assault to prevent a public servant from performing their duties, intentionally causing harm, attempting murder, criminal conspiracy, and the Arms Act.

Pathan is being held in a prison after being taken into custody on March 3, 2020, in the Shamli district of Uttar Pradesh. On February 24, 2020, confrontations between proponents and opponents of the new citizenship legislation erupted in northeast Delhi. Numerous individuals were hurt and 53 people died as a result of the days-long clashes.

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