By IANS,
New Delhi : A Delhi court Friday framed charges against 98 people accused of attacking Dalits in a Haryana village in April 2010, leading to the death of two community members.
Special Judge (Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes Act) Kamini Lau said: “In addition to the aforesaid material placed before this court in the charge-sheet, the MLC (medico-legal cases) of the victims are also present on record which I have duly perused. Most of which show the presence of injuries caused to them by blunt objects.”
“The postmortem report of the deceased Tara Chand and his daughter Suman also show that they had expired on account of burn injuries connected with the incident. Further, the report regarding the damage of immovable properties and theft of movables has also been perused by me,” she said.
The judge said there was prima facie sufficient material to frame charges under sections 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 302 (murder), 147 (rioting), 325 (voluntarily causing grievous hurt), 395 (dacoity), 397 (robbery with attempt to cause death), 427 (mischief), and several other sections of the Indian Penal Code and additional charges under Section 3(1)(x), (xv), 3(2)(iii), (iv) and (v) of the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 against all the accused.