Tis Hazari firing case: Arguments on charges likely to begin after one year of incident
Jul 03, 2024
New Delhi [India], July 4 : After one year of firing and rioting incident at Delhi's Tis Hazari court, the case has been sent to the court of Sessions, and arguments on charges will likely begin mid-July. This incident took place between two groups of lawyers on July 5, 2023.
A charge sheet was filed on September 3, 2023. Judicial Magistrate First Class Chatinder Singh committed the case to the Principal District and Sessions judge for further proceedings.
All the accused persons have been directed to appear before the Principal District and Sessions Judge on July 18.
Thereafter, the case will be assigned to an additional Sessions Judge who will hear the arguments on charges against the accused persons. All accused are on bail in this case.
On October 4, Tis Hazari court took cognizance of the charge sheet filed by Delhi police against the accused persons.
On July 5, firing and stone pelting occurred between two groups of lawyers at Tis Hazari Court premises. Initially, eight accused were arrested and six firearms were recovered by the Delhi police. Later on, two accused were also arrested.
This incident was captured in the CCTV footage and had gone viral.
The charge sheet filed under sections 147, 148, 201, 307, 323, 325 IPC and 25 and 27 Arms Act against eight accused namely Shiv Ram Pandey, Lalit Sharma, Manish Sharma, Sandeep Sharma, Sachin Sangwan, Ravi Gupta, Aman Singh and Jeetesh Khari.
Delhi police had cited 32 prosecution witnesses in the charge sheet. It also includes CCTV footage of the incident. The FSL report has also been annexed with the charge sheet.
During the investigation, Delhi police recovered six country-made pistols from the accused persons and ammunition in huge quantities.
While dismissing the bail application of accused Shiv Ram Pandey, Additional Sessions Judge Sanjay Sharma had said, "In such a serious case where arms and ammunition were indiscriminately used and further, huge arms and ammunition were recovered from the co-accused persons, releasing the applicant on bail at this nascent stage of the investigation would seriously prejudice the course of the investigation."
Bar Council of Delhi (BCD) had suspended the enrollment of the counsels accused in the matter in its inquiry. One of the former officer bearers is also an accused. One of the groups was allegedly led by this accused.
