Delhi riots: Court frames charges against 9

New Delhi: A Delhi court on Thursday framed charges of rioting and murder against nine people in three cases related to the northeast Delhi riots.
Additional sessions judge Virender Bhat framed charges under sections 144 (joining unlawful assembly armed with deadly weapon), 147 and 148 (rioting), 302 (murder), 201 (disappearance of evidence), 364 (kidnapping or abducting in order to murder), 452 (house-trespass after preparation for hurt, assault or wrongful restraint) read with 149 (unlawful assembly) of IPC.
The court framed charges against Lokesh Solanki, Pankaj Sharma, Sumit Chaudhary, Ankit Chaudhary, Prince, Rishabh Chaudhary, Jatin Sharma, Vivek Panchal and Himanshu Thakur. It also framed charges against three others — Sahil, Sandeep, Tinku Arora— in one of the cases.
“Upon perusal of the material annexed along with the chargesheet particularly the statements of various witnesses, it is evident that charges under section 144/147/148/302/201/364 /452 IPC read with section 149 IPC are made out against all the accused,” it said in similar orders in the three cases.
The court, however, said that there was no material on record which would prima facie indicate that the accused had indulged in the riotous incident in pursuance to any conspiracy; therefore, the charge for the offence under section 120b (criminal conspiracy) IPC was not made out against them.