A Session Court of Mumbai has ordered to release 10 innocent Muslim youths who had been facing trial for 18 years for their alleged involvement in pelting stones and setting some houses of majority locality to fire during Mumbai communal violence of 1992-1993. The evidences presented by the plaintiff were not enough to prove them as involved in any crime. The Session Judge S.J. Markade said in his verdict that the petitioners have failed to prove that the accused persons were involved in violent aggression of pelting stone and setting homes to fire; therefore all 10 persons have been freed with honour. The Judge said that the claims of two witnesses, who had come to identify the ‘criminals’ in the court, were contradictive. The lawyer for the accused, Mr. Shafi Shaikh said that the evidences presented to the court could have been procured from any other place and it is not enough to prove some citizen as criminal.
The names of persons who have been freed by the Court are Syed Nizamuddin, Rizwan Burhanuddin, Ansarul Haq, Shamsuz Zaman, Fazl Haq Khan, Jamil Khan, Akram Khan, Javed Ghanchi, Arif Shaikh, and Rahim Khan. They all were present in the court when it freed them from all criminal charges.