NEW DELHI, June 13: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today chargesheeted ten Delhi Police personnel including an assistant commissioner (ACP) in the Connaught Place shoot-out incident in which two innocent businessmen were killed and one injured on March 31.The chargesheet was filed in the court of chief metropolitan magistrate, Prem Kumar, and would come up for consideration of cognizance on July 7.Police Personnel ACP S S Rathi, inspectors Anil Kumar, Shiv Kumar, Tejpal Singh, Mahavir Singh, Suresh Singh, Subhas Chand, Sunil Kumar and Kothari Ram were chargesheeted under Section 302 (culpable homicide amounting to murder), 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence) and 34 (act in furtherance of common intention) of the Indian Penal Code.None of the accused have so far been arrested.However, five police personnel were not chargesheeted in the case as the CBI said that they did not participate in the shoot-out as they were not carrying firearms.Filing the chargesheet, the CBI counsel said the court could take cognizance of the case as government had already granted permission to prosecute them.Two businessmen Pradeep Goyal and Jagjit Singh were shot dead when a team of policemen mistook them for dreaded gangster Yaseen Ahmed and his associates.The incident was described by the then city police chief, Nikhil Kumar, as a ``bonafide case of mistaken identity''.When the CBI counsel prayed that all the accused be summoned through non-bailable arrest warrants, the CMM asked why the accused persons were not arrested.The CBI counsel said, ``We did not arrest them because they are Police'', at this the judge asked ``Kyon, apka gurda nehin hai kya ?'' (Why, did you not have guts to arrest them ?).The CBI counsel said, ``Yehi samajhlo ji'' (You could think that).The CBI, which was entrusted with a probe into the shootout a day after the incident, in its chargesheet said the accused ``with a common intention to kill the occupants, opened indiscriminate fire on the car with their service weapons without any provocation''. ``The police firing killed Pradeep Goyal and Jagjit Singh on the spot and grievously injured Tarun while they were sitting in the car,'' the chargesheet said adding that these police personnel ``with a view to screen themselves planted weapons and prepared false record''.Police had earlier registered two cases after the shootout. Another case was filed by Goyal's father-in-law Dinesh Gupta against the Delhi Police.
