“The names we gave to the Delhi police on multiple occasions do not find any mention in the chargesheet.”
A deepdive by @sighyush & @Basantrajsonu into the murder of Maruf Ali & how the police have ignored key eyewitness testimonies in the case.
newslaundry.com/2020/07/18/who…
It was the third day of the communal carnage in the capital that left at least 53 people dead and hundreds injured.
Shamshad, 25, who was shot in his abdomen moments before Maruf, remembers the faces in the mob, and so does Haroon: they were their neighbours.
Haroon says he told the investigating officer the names of the members of the mob too he recognised but when he got a copy of the FIR a few days later, he found that it did not name the men who had allegedly shot Maruf and Shamshad.
When the case moved to the Crime Branch, Haroon says he told them everything all over again. "How it happened and the names of those who killed my brother. I even showed him their homes in the neighbourhood.”
Yet, in the chargesheet filed on June 8, seen by Newslaundry, only a single sentence is attributed to Haroon, in the section titled “Examination and recording of statements of other important witnesses”.
This is the first part of a two-part report on the murder of Maruf Ali. The report is part of a series looking at the police’s handling of the investigation into the 2020 Delhi carnage and is COMPLETELY funded by our subscribers as part of the #NLSena.
newslaundry.com/sena
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