Seven ‘Dawood gang members’ acquitted

Rejecting prosecution evidence, a Sessions Court here today acquitted seven alleged members of the Dawood Ibrahim gang of the charge of cons...

Rejecting prosecution evidence, a Sessions Court here today acquitted seven alleged members of the Dawood Ibrahim gang of the charge of conspiracy to kill Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani.

Judge M.V. Marathe, acquitting the accused, observed that the prosecution had failed to prove the charges of conspiracy and waging war against the nation.

The court pulled up police for its lapses and discarded evidence given by the prosecution. Judge Marathe observed that the FIR appeared to be ‘‘concocted’’ and it did not mention that the accused had planned to kill Advani. Police relied on statements of co-accused and witnesses in this regard. The prosecution also did not explain the delay in filing the FIR.

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The accused are Akbar Hussain Shafi Hussain, Zakir Hussain Shaikh, Mohammed Hanif, Javed Khan, Srinivas Naidu alias Tohil, Mohammed Saddiq Ansari and Mohammed Sadiq Shaikh.

Seven other accused were shown in the chargesheet as absconding and would be tried separately whenever they are arrested. They include Dawood Ibrahim, Chhota Shakeel, Sagir Ali, Sabir Ali Shaikh, Farooq Davdiwala and Anwar alias Tanveer.

The court also disbelieved public witnesses who had witnessed recovery of a pistol from accused Akbar Hussain. According to police, the accused had allegedly hatched a conspiracy in 2001 to kill the then Union home minister L.K. Advani.

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