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Smriti Irani stalking case: Delhi police files charge sheet against four accused 1 year later

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Four youths allegedly stalked I&B Minister Smriti Irani when she was returning to her official residence from the Indira Gandhi International Airport.

A year after the Union Minister Smriti Irani’s stalking incident took place, the Delhi police filed a charge sheet against four people. A news agency reported that the accused have been booked for stalking, intention to insult the modesty of a woman and criminal intimidation.

The incident happened when I&B Minister Smriti Irani was returning to her official residence in Delhi from the Indira Gandhi International Airport.

The Delhi police officials have revealed that the four accused are students studying in Ram Lal Anand College which comes under Delhi University. Reportedly, all the four accused were under the influence of alcohol at the time. The students also hurled “unwanted” words and made inappropriate gestures. However, they were soon caught as Smriti Irani’s car reached near Myanmar Embassy in Lutyens’ Zone. The accused, later, were released on bail.

One of the accused later issued an apology to the minister saying he and his friends did not know that it was Smriti Irani’s car. He confessed that they were making funny videos for a social media site and did not know that Union Minister Smriti Irani was in the car they overtook. “We would not have done this if we knew that it was Smriti Irani’s car,” the accused told a news agency.

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NIA court acquits all the accused in 2007 Mecca Masjid Blast case

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The historic Mecca Masjid Blast during Friday prayers in Hyderabad on May 18, 2007, left as much as 58 people injured and killed many others.

 

The special NIA court in Hyderabad acquitted all the accused in 2007 Mecca Masjid Blast case on the basis of lack of evidence. The court said that the National Investigation Agency (NIA) failed to provide enough evidence to back the allegations on the accused.

The historic Mecca Masjid Blast during Friday prayers in Hyderabad on May 18, 2007, left as much as 58 people injured and killed many others. The CBI had filed a charge sheet in the case after an initial investigation by the local police. In 2011, the NIA took the charge of the case from the CBI. The NIA in its investigation named ten people as accused in the case who belonged to right-wing organizations.

Five of them Swami Aseemanand, Lokesh Sharma, Devendra Gupta, Naba Kumar Sarkar and Bharat Mohanlal Rateshwar were arrested and faced the court trial. In the span of seven years, as many as 226 witnesses were examined and 411 documents were scrutinized during the trials.

“We will examine the court judgment after we get a copy of the same and decide further course of action,” NIA said after the verdict.

Ahead of the verdict, a high alert was sounded in the city by the Hyderabad Police. Heavy security was also deployed outside the Nampally Courts Complex where the NIA special court is located.

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