‘Delhi riots accused Shahrukh Pathan seen mingling with high-risk prisoners on CCTV’: Court
Pathan’s lawyers had alleged that on January 30, the accused was badly beaten up and tortured by Assistant Superintendent Rajesh Dahiya. CCTV footage of the relevant date was preserved and played in the courtroom.
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Shahrukh Pathan (27) allegedly fired eight rounds at Maujpur while standing in front of a policeman. (PTI Photo)A Delhi court Monday said that Sharukh Pathan, who allegedly pointed a gun at a policeman during the Northeast Delhi riots, was found mingling with high-risk prisoners and denied him bail. The court said this after seeing a series of jail CCTV footage inside the courtroom.
Additional Sessions Judge Amit Prasad said the “entire flood of applications moved by the accused does not inspire confidence and appears to be meant for bail application.”
Pathan’s lawyers had alleged that on January 30, the accused was badly beaten up and tortured by Assistant Superintendent Rajesh Dahiya. CCTV footage of the relevant date was preserved and played in the courtroom.
“The said footage shows that on that day, the accused, after being produced through video conferencing, on his own, without informing, left the video conferencing room of the Tihar Jail, and for two-and-a-half hours, (he) had escaped and was inside a cell. This was stated to be a violation of prison rules. It was stated that the entire jail administration was desperately looking for him,” the court said.
The court noted that Pathan was mingling and having lunch with co-inmates, including gangsters. After he was located, he was stated to be summoned by the Jail Superintendent and was given a punishment ticket for violating jail rules.
Pathan then came out from the jail superintendent’s room and he “voluntarily met two convicts, including a death row convict in the Red Fort bomb blast case, and after talking, he gestures in one direction which it is found to be towards Asst. Superintendent Rajesh Dahiya. Thereafter, Asst. Superintendent Rajesh Dahiya approached him and in anger, slapped him.”
The court noted that Pathan’s entire demeanour shows “his casual approach and does not show any harassment”.
Stating that the jail staffer was provoked by Pathan, the court said, “This obviously does not justify Asst. Superintendent Rajesh Dahiya slapping him since being a public servant and incharge, he has to act in a more restrained way and take the aggressive and malafide conduct of the accused/undertrial in his stride.”
The court saw another footage of February 10 in which Pathan and another inmate were seen mingling with three hardened criminals. “From the shadow, he could be seen intentionally thrashing and beating up an undertrial prisoner (UTP), Bunty, and then bandaging him. The said Bunty, thereafter on the next day, made a complaint to the jail inspecting judge that he and Shahrukh Pathan had been badly beaten, tortured and harassed by the Tihar Jail Superintendent,” the court noted.
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