Overview
- The Karkardooma court acquitted nine defendants Monday, with Judge Parveen Singh granting them the benefit of doubt after finding key testimony unreliable.
- The judge said eyewitness accounts were general, clashed with the police site plan for an attack on an Innova Crysta, and placed the incident at a different location than officers claimed.
- The order recorded that the investigating officer put the date as February 24 even though the events occurred on February 25, a mismatch the shop owner and other witnesses raised with police.
- The court found the testimonies of Constable Gyan Singh and Head Constable Sunil about the Innova incident to be completely false, further weakening the prosecution’s case.
- Filed as Dayalpur FIR 98 of 2020, the case alleged vandalism of a car, a burned motorcycle, looting of vendor carts, an e‑rickshaw theft, and arson at Royal Motors, and the acquittal also canceled bail bonds and discharged sureties in a decision likely to sharpen scrutiny of Delhi Police riot probes, including prior cases involving Shah Alam.