Haryana’s Additional Advocate General Deepak Sabharwal instructed the Punjab and Haryana excessive court docket that Khan was named an accused on September 4.
Congress MLA Mamman Khan has been named an accused in an FIR lodged after the August 31 Nuh violence, the Haryana authorities instructed the excessive court docket on Thursday, additionally claiming that the police have the telephone name data and different proof to again the transfer.
Haryana’s Additional Advocate General Deepak Sabharwal instructed the Punjab and Haryana excessive court docket that Khan was named an accused on September 4 after the proof against him was ”correctly evaluated”. There was “ample evidence” against him, he later instructed reporters.
The Ferozepur Jhirka MLA had moved the court docket on Tuesday, looking for safety from arrest whereas claiming that he was being framed in the case when he wasn’t even in Nuh the day the violence broke out.
The MLA’s counsel instructed reporters after the listening to that Khan has solely now come to know that he has been named in the FIR. The court docket mentioned Khan can search acceptable treatment “for protection of liberty in accordance with law”, in accordance with the counsel.
Justice Vikas Bahl will subsequent hear the case on October 19.
A Vishva Hindu Parishad-led procession was attacked by mobs in Nuh on July 31. Six individuals have been killed, most of them in the course of the assault. A cleric died in an assault on a mosque in adjoining Gurugram.
The Haryana MLA pleaded that every one circumstances associated to the violence in Nuh must be transferred to a particular investigation staff. An SIT has already been shaped, the court docket was instructed by the federal government counsel.
Earlier, the MLA was requested twice by Nuh Police to hitch the investigation however he failed to seem earlier than it. He didn’t adjust to the police summons for August 31, saying he had viral fever.
In his petition, Khan and was at his Gurugram house from July 26 to August 1, and never in Nuh.
But the federal government’s counsel mentioned after the listening to that the proof went against Khan’s declare.
Sabharwal mentioned there have been name element data, his location tracked via a telephone tower, a press release by the MLA’s private safety officer and different proof that ”falsified” Khan’s declare.
“The court was told that the investigation is going on in a fair manner. Out of the 52 accused in the FIR, 42 have been arrested and one accused is on regular bail. The court was apprised of all evidence gathered against him by the investigating agency,” he mentioned.
The state counsel instructed the court docket {that a} co-accused, Taufiq, who was arrested on September 9 has additionally named Khan.
The counsel mentioned name particulars from the cellphones and tower areas associated to Taufiq and the petitioner have been examined. It was discovered that calls have been exchanged between them on July 29 and 30, forward of July 31 violence, he mentioned.
