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Nearly 2 years after mob attack onmosque, bail for last of 9 accused

Nearly 2 years after mob attack onmosque, bail for last of 9 accused

Time of India4 days ago
Gurgaon: A city court this week granted bail to a 22-year-old man who was accused in a case related to a mob attack on a Sector 57 mosque in the aftermath of the 2023 Nuh riots.
Sukhral alias Kapil alias Kubda (22), a resident of Bandhwari, is the last of the nine accused to be granted bail in the case.
On July 31, 2023, after days of threats posted online by people from two communities, violence broke out during the Brijmandal Jalabhishek Yatra as the procession was crossing Nuh and came under attack from an armed mob.
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Six people, including three cops, were killed in riots which sparked communal violence in Gurgaon and neighbouring districts of south Haryana.
Hours after the violence in Nuh, an armed mob of around 90-100 surrounded Anjuman Mosque in Sector 57 and laid siege to it in the early hours of Aug 1.
A police team deployed at the spot tried to stop the mob but came under fire.
Within a few minutes, the mob had entered the mosque and set it on fire.
The mosque's naib imam Mohd Saad, assaulted and critically injured in the attack, died while still on his way to the hospital.
Another man, Khurshid Alam, sustained a bullet injury to his leg.
An FIR was filed at Sector 56 police station under sections for murder, rioting, unlawful assembly, voluntarily causing hurt to another person, mischief causing damage, and other provisions of the IPC, along with the Arms Act.
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Nine accused were named in the case, and Kapil was the last of them to be identified and arrested.
Kapil's counsel Manish Shandilya argued during the hearings that the 22-year-old was implicated in the disclosure statement of other accused.
"No recovery is pending. The chargesheet has been filed. No custodial interrogation is required. He has been falsely named in this FIR," Shandilya told the court.
Public prosecutor Sumit Saini argued that though Kapil's name was not initially mentioned in the FIR, it was initially disclosed by the other accused.
"The weapons used in the commission of the offence have been recovered from the accused," he said.
Additional sessions judge Puneet Sehgal in the July 16 order observed that keeping the accused in custody without justification would infringe on his fundamental rights.
"So, after considering the facts and circumstances of the case and without commenting on the merits of the case, this court deems it appropriate to grant the concession of bail to the applicants-accused," the order read.
Kapil was granted bail on the condition that he pays a bond of Rs 1 lakh.
Four other accused in the case – Naveen, Rakesh alias Bhola, Aakash and Naveen – are out on bail granted by the local court.
Three more persons , Satpal, Ravinder and Rahul, were granted bail by Punjab and Haryana high court in July 2024.
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