A particular SC/ST courtroom in Agra has convicted 35 accused in a 1990 case involving a violent assault by members of the Jat neighborhood on a Dalit locality in Akola village beneath the Fatehpur Sikri space of the district. The incident left not less than 100 individuals injured.
The courtroom will hear arguments on the quantum of punishment on Might 30. (For illustration)
Out of the 74 individuals initially charge-sheeted in 1994, 22 died through the course of litigation, whereas 15 had been acquitted because of lack of proof. Two of the accused who had been minors on the time of the incident had been tried in a juvenile courtroom.
Out of the 35 accused held responsible, three didn’t seem earlier than the courtroom on Wednesday. Non-bailable warrants (NBWs) had been issued towards them and so they had been despatched to jail.
The chargesheet was filed towards 74 accused in 1994 in a case registered at Kagarol police station of Agra in reference to the incident that happened on June 24, 1990, three days after the notorious Panwari case, one other caste-based battle in Agra district.
In line with Hemant Dixit, further district authorities counsel (ADGC), crime, particular courtroom (SC/ST Act), Agra, the case was registered on the Kagarol police station after the dominant Jat neighborhood members attacked Dalits residing in Akola village in Fatehpur Sikri space on June 24, 1990.
The counsel for victims, Shamsher Singh, who was then a baby, allegedly noticed his father going through head accidents within the assault. He was one among round 100 individuals injured.
Earlier on June 21, 1990, there was a dispute in Agra’s Panwari village over the ‘baraat’ (wedding ceremony procession) of a Dalit household. Administration and police intervened and supplied safety to the baraatis amidst opposition. In a conflict that adopted, a person was killed and the violence unfold to different villages, with Akola being one among them. Curfew was imposed within the aftermath of the violence.
“The court has held the accused guilty under sections 147 (rioting), 148 (rioting with deadly weapons), 452 (house trespass), 504 (insult to provoke breach of peace), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 427 (damage to property) of the IPC, and under the SC/ST Act,” Dixit stated, including the courtroom would hear arguments on the quantum of punishment on Might 30.