A Delhi court on Tuesday dropped cheating charges against the caretaker of the flat where two suspected militants were killed in an encounter with the Delhi Police at Batla House in south-east Delhi in 2008.
‘Forging’ lease deed
The encounter had taken place when a team of Delhi Police’s Special Cell raided flat no 108 at L-18 in the Batla House area of Jamia Nagar on September 19, 2008, after reportedly getting a tip off that suspected Indian Mujaheedin members, responsible for the 2008 Delhi serial blasts, were hiding there. Inspector M.C. Sharma, who headed the operation, was killed in the encounter along with two suspected terrorists — Atif Ahmed and Mohammad Sajjid.
Additional Sessions Judge Raj Kumar Tripathi discharged the care-taker, Abdul Rehman, saying that “the order for framing of charge against Rehman for offence under Section 420 (cheating) IPC is not sustainable in the eyes of law as the prosecution prima facie failed to show on record that the rent agreement was forged by Rehman.”
The court dropped the charge on a petition filed by Rehman against a Metropolitan Magistrate order framing the charge of cheating against him. Flat owner Mohsin Nissar had accused Rehman of forging his signature in the lease deed while renting out the flat to the two suspected terrorists.
