The Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) has filed a supplementary cost sheet towards the Fifteenth accused within the Ekbalpore Communal violence case in West Bengal. The case includes a conflict between two communities that occurred on October 9 final 12 months. The NIA named Md Zeeshan Akbar, a resident of Kolkata’s Kidderpore, within the new cost sheet filed earlier than a particular NIA court docket in Kolkata on Tuesday, reported information company ANI.
The NIA in January had filed a cost sheet towards 14 accused individuals in the identical case. The investigation discovered that Akbar, together with different co-accused, had deliberate a legal conspiracy to mobilize an ‘illegal meeting’ with the intention of attacking the homes and retailers of the Hindu group at Gali No. 8, Bhukailash Street, Mominpore, Kolkata. They used crude bombs, petrol bombs, wood sticks, brickbats, and stones to hold out the assault. The mob disrupted the electrical energy provide within the space and prevented the police personnel from coming into the realm to manage the riots. Additionally they assaulted the police personnel, inflicting accidents to one in every of them.
Moreover, the 2 communities deterred the police personnel from discharging their official duties by bodily assaulting them, damaging automobiles parked close by, and attacking police personnel within the jurisdiction of Ekbalpore Police Station, Kolkata. The case was initially registered on October 10 final 12 months at Ekbalpore Police Station in Kolkata, West Bengal and re-registered by the NIA on October 18 final 12 months.
The case was initially registered on October 10 final 12 months at Ekbalpore Police Station in Kolkata, West Bengal, and re-registered by the NIA on October 18 final 12 months. The ANI report said that the most recent cost sheet named Md Fakruddin Siddique, Md Salauddin Siddique, Md Sahabuddin Siddique, Md Idul Siddique, Md Ziauddin, Badrul Hossain, Ohab Hossain, Mustafa Hussain, Zakir Hossain, Gholam Md Izhar, Md Faiyaz, Sunny, Raju, and Imamul Haque.
All of the 15 accused individuals have been chargesheeted beneath sections 120B, 147, 149, 152, 332, 353, and 436 of the Indian Penal Code and Sections 3 and 5 of the Explosive Substances Act, 1908.
The NIA’s first cost sheet was filed three days after it carried out searches at 17 places in Kolkata in reference to the case and seized Rs 33.87 lakh in money from the residence of three absconding accused. The NIA sleuths carried out searches at these places in Bhukailash Street within the Mominpore space of Kolkata. Throughout the searches, the NIA had claimed to grab a complete quantity of Rs 33,87,300 (Rs. 30,55,000 from the home of Md Salauddin Siddique, Rs 1,59,300 from the home of Zakir Hossain and Rs 1,73,000 from the home of Tipu; all three evading arrest), sharp-edged weapons, and different incriminating gadgets.
The NIA took over the case after the Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Radicalisation (CTCR) division of the Ministry of Residence Affairs (MHA) directed it to register an FIR and begin an intensive probe, contemplating the gravity of the case. The MHA’s order adopted the path of the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom in October whereas listening to a writ petition regarding the Ekbalpore-Mominpore communal violence.
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