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The mob was demanding the detention of two men “for allegedly beating” who had been arrested and brought to the police station. (Representative photo: Reuters/File)
The special judge amended the six-month jail sentence given to Akhilesh Patti Tripathi and three months to Sanjeev Jha and also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on both of them in the case.
Delhi AAP special judge gave MLAs Akhilesh Pati Tripathi and Sanjeev Jha the nominal punishment of ‘until court lifted’ on Monday for being part of a mob that attacked policemen at Burari police station in north Delhi in 2015.
No person who has been sentenced to “Court Boarding” is not allowed to leave the court until the day is over.
Special Judge Gitangeli Goel passed the directions while upholding the Magistrates Court’s order which convicted both politicians on September 7, 2022.
However, the judge modified the six-month jail sentence given to Tripathi and three months in Jha.
The sentence was issued by a Metropolitan judge on January 5, 2023.
While adjusting the jail term, the court also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on both of them in the case.
“In view of the facts and circumstances of the case and the sum of the facts, it would be appropriate for the appellants to be sentenced to imprisonment until the court lifted the offense under section 332 (voluntarily causing harm) of the IPC, read with section 149 (every member of an unlawful assembly guilty of an offense while prosecuting common goal) of the IPC,” said the judge.
Akhilesh Patti Tripathi is the MLA of Model Town while Sanjeev represents Jha Burari.
The investigating judge also convicted 15 others in a case of rioting and harming police officers at a police station.
were found guilty of offenses under sections 147 (rioting), 186 (obstructing a public official in the performance of public functions), 332 (voluntarily causing harm to deter a public official from the performance of his duty), and 149 (every member of an unlawful assembly is guilty of A crime committed in the prosecution of the common objective) of the IPC.
According to the prosecution, the incident took place on the night of February 20, 2015, when a mob attacked police officers at Al Barari Police Station and damaged property.
The mob was demanding the detention of two men “for allegedly beating” who had been arrested and brought to the police station.
The police had tried to pacify the crowd, but the legal aid army joined in and attacked them, resorting to stone-throwing, the court’s prosecutor said.
(This story was not edited by the News18 staff and was published from a syndicated news agency feed – PTI)
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