INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Tabrez Ansari in 2019.The court of additional district judge (ADJ 1), Amit Shekhar,convicted the accused under Sections 304, 323, 325, 341,
295 (A) and 149 IPCand imposed a penalty of Rs 15,000 on each of the accused.The court had pronounced the accused guilty in the case on June
27, and reserved July 5 for pronouncing the quantum of punishment.The case involves the lynching of 24-year-old, Tabrez Ansari, in Dhatkidih
village under Seraikela police station on the night of June 17, 2019
Tabrez was brutally beaten up by an angry mob for allegedly trying to barge into the house of Kamal Mahato in Dhatkidih
Kamal is one of the convicts.The villagers handed over Tabrez to the police on June 18 morning and he was sent to Seraikela jail the same
day.Subsequently, on June 22, four days after the thrashing, Tabrez was admitted to Seraikela Sadar Hospital (SSH) where he died the same
day.Both sides, the accused and the defence, however, remained dissatisfied with the order and have decided to move higher courts.High court
said it was a clear-cut case of lynching and the accused should have been tried and sentenced for murder
His death was not due to simple heart failure, it was a case of heart failure linked to severe trauma that he sustained due to brutal
Sahista Parveen, reportedly told media that she would challenge the judgment in the higher court
She has said the convicts deserved death penalty, 10-year jail term is too less a punishment for the heinous crime of lynching.Similar
court of law, we beg to differ with the judgement in this case
We will definitely go to the higher court for justice
The medical board report of the deceased Tabrez confirms there was no serious injury to him when he was taken into custody by the police on
Pradhan, Vikram Mandal, Kamal Mahato, Atul Mahali, Madan Nayak, Mahesh Mahali, and, Bheem Singh Mandal
The main accused, Pappu Mandal, was in the jail, while the rest were out on bail.Following the conviction on June 27, all accused who were
on bail, were taken into custody
In all, 11 people were accused in the case but one of the accused, Kushal Mahali, was killed in a road accident.Seraikela Kharsawa police
had filed the initial chargesheet on July 23, 2019, charging the accused with murder but in the final chargesheet filed in Seraikela court
on August 11, the charges were converted to culpable homicide not amounting to murder under Section 304 IPC.The then SP Seraikela Kharsawa
stating that two more person namely Vikram Mandal and Atul Mahli have been charge sheeted under section 147, 149, 341, 342, 323, 325, 302
cause of death and viscera was preserved
In the report issued by the Forensic Science Laboratory the cause of death was stated to be heart attack but the cause of cardiac arrest was
In the interest of justice and for successful prosecution, police decided to get a report from the expert medical board of Mahatma Gandhi
