Lawyers to move court seeking FIR against ex-Ram Temple officials
Ayodhya, July 13: Faizabad Bar Association lawyers on Monday said they would approach the court, claiming that the police refused to file an FIR against former general secretary of Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust Champat Rai, former trust members Anil Mishra and Gopal Rao in the Ram temple donation embezzlement case. The lawyers claimed that the police had declined to lodge an FIR against the accused despite filing a complaint on July 2 at the Ram Janmabhoomi police station. “We had given the police two weeks to lodge an FIR against Rai, Mishra and Rao. Today (on Monday), a delegation of the Faizabad Bar Association visited the police station regarding the FIR. The officers there informed us that the FIR has not been lodged and they informed us that they have forwarded the complaint to their higher officials,” Aftab Khan, a member of Faizabad Bar Association, said. Khan is also a member of a 21-member-committee of lawyers formed to plead the case against Rai, Mishra and Rao. Meanwhile, The Ram temple trust on Monday invited applications for the post of its first chief executive officer (CEO), listing various eligibility conditions, including that the candidates have to be practising Hindus with preference to ‘Ram bhakt’ from Vaishnavite tradition. (PTI)
Court convicts ex-AAP councillor, others in IB officer murder case
New Delhi, July 13: Jan Suraaj Party founder A Delhi court on Monday convicted former Aam Aadmi Party councillor Tahir Hussain and 4 others in the sensational murder case of Intelligence officer Ankit Sharma, who was attacked by a mob and his body dumped in a drain during the 2020 northeast Delhi riots. He was an AAP councillor at the time of the incident but was later suspended by the party when his name came up in the case. The court also acquitted six other accused. The court convicted Hussain under IPC sections 302 (murder), 153A (promoting enmity), 149 (rioting), 355 (assault on criminal force and murder) read with 149, 148 (rioting with deadly weapon), 147 (punishment for rioting). It also convicted Nazim, Qasim, Javed, Anas under the same charges except murder. The case pertains to an FIR registered at Dayalpur police station on the complaint of Ravinder Kumar, father of Ankit Sharma. According to the complaint, Sharma had returned home from office on February 25, 2020, before stepping out again. When he did not return for a long time, his family began searching for him, only to be informed that his son had been killed and his body thrown into the Khajuri Khas drain near a mosque in the Chand Bagh pulia area. (PTI)
