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The Delhi High Court has granted bail to a man accused in a murder case related to the violence that broke out in the national Capital last February, reported The Indian Express on Friday. The High Court also questioned the video evidence and witness statement in the case.
The accused person, Mohammad Bilal, was arrested for the death of a man identified as Mudassir, who had sustained a bullet injury on February 25 last year during an anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protest in Kabir Nagar. He was in jail since June 22, 2020.
At least 53 people had died and hundreds were injured in clashes that had broken out between supporters of the Citizenship Amendment Act and those opposing it between February 23 and February 26, 2020, in North East Delhi. The majority of the victims were Muslim.
In the order, Justice Mukta Gupta noted that Bilal’s arrest was based on three pieces of evidence – he was seen damaging a CCTV camera near the spot of the incident, a witness statement, and another by a police constable who had identified the accused through CCTV footage.
The High Court said it could not understand why there was only a 35-second video showing Mudassir being injured and nothing before or after, even though videography was…