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Turkman Gate violence: Delhi court grants bail to one accused
A Delhi court on Tuesday granted bail to one of the accused in the stone-pelting incident during a demolition exercise near Faiz-e-Elahi mosque in Turkman Gate early this month. Additional Sessions Judge Joginder Prakash Nahar granted bail to Ubedullah, a street vendor, on a bond of Rs. 25,000 with one surety of the like amount. The prosecution largely relied on CCTV footage and the disclosure of a co-accused, alleging that Ubedullah was part of a violent crowd that obstructed police, indulged in stone-pelting and caused damage to public property. M K Malik and A F Faizi, the counsel for the accused, emphasised that the First Information Report (FIR) names several other persons but not Ubedullah, and that the entire case against him is “a `fishing expedition` premised on a single `omnibus` identifying witness” and “prejudicial reliance on CCTV footage which does not show any overt act by him”. Furthermore, they argued that being a resident of the area, the CCTV footage only captured Ubedullah emerging from his house to search for his minor sister and …
