By Nikita Jain
A Delhi Court on Friday released a person who was “mistakenly arrested” by the Delhi Police in the Uttam Nagar violence case and held in illegal custody without evidence showing his involvement.
Imran, also called Babu, was released after Delhi Police accepted that he had nothing to do with the case. Additional Sessions Judge Shivani Bansal of the Dwarka Courts passed the order immediately releasing the accused, Imran alias Bunty, from jail after observing that he was not involved in the offence.
“At this stage, IO has submitted before this Court that accused Imran @ Bunty S/o Saifi Mohd. was arrested mistakenly and he has no involvement in the present case,” the bail order accessed by Maktoob read.
“The investigating agency has been compelled to admit that my client Imran was arrested due to mistaken identity. The Hon’ble Court has finally directed his release,” Abdul Gaffar, advocate counsel for Imran, told Maktoob.
Imran was in custody for 2.5 months before he was ordered to be released.
During the proceedings, the investigating officer of the case told the court that nothing incriminating had emerged from the CCTV footage against the accused Imran and that he had been mistakenly arrested.
The court noted that the accused had been incarcerated in illegal custody since March 8, when he was arrested in the case, and that the investigating officer only came to know about his wrongful implication on May 3.
Declining to take cognisance of the offences against him, the court stated, “To the utter dismay of this court, the IO had not taken steps for release of accused Imran alias Bunty until filing of the charge sheet despite knowing about the illegal custody of accused.”
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