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Metropolitan Magistrate ((*20*)) R.R. Khan acquitted the 20 individuals on Monday because the prosecution did not show the fees in opposition to them.
A Mumbai courtroom has acquitted 20 foreign attendees of a Tablighi Jamaat event who had been booked by the town police for allegedly violating prohibitory orders throughout the coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown.
Metropolitan Magistrate ((*20*)) R.R. Khan acquitted the 20 individuals on Monday because the prosecution did not show the fees in opposition to them. “There is no iota of evidence with prosecution to show any contravention of order by accused persons beyond all shadow of doubt,” the courtroom noticed.
Keeping in view the proof on file and details and circumstances of the matter, it’s clear that the order in query was neither publicly promulgated nor introduced into discover of the accused individuals, the courtroom mentioned. The prosecution witnesses clarified that the accused haven’t violated the lockdown norms and order of the police commissioner, it famous.
Tablighi Jamaat, an island unto itself
The courtroom additionally mentioned variations of the witnesses had been opposite to the documentary proof on file. “The prosecution has not even carried out preparation of panchanama and never recorded statement of any other independent witness. Thus, there is no legal evidence furnished by prosecution in support of the charge,” it mentioned.
The courtroom additional famous that the witnesses had been additionally not discovered able to inform the place and the way the accused individual had been residing on the time of the alleged offence.
A case was registered in opposition to two teams, every comprising 10 foreign nationals, in April by D.N. Nagar police in (*20*) below Indian Penal Code Sections 188 (disobedience of order duly promulgated by public servant), 269 and 270 (acts prone to unfold an infection of harmful illness).
They had been additionally charged below provisions of the Foreigners Act, the Epidemic Diseases Act and the Disaster Management Act.
A periods courtroom has already discharged them for offence below IPC Sections 307 (try to homicide) and 304(2) (murder not amounting to homicide).
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