2020 riots in Delhi: The man who shot a police officer rejects his bail plea.

Shahrukh Pathan's bail request was denied by a court on Monday. Pathan had a gun pointed at a head constable of the Delhi Police during the 2020 riots in the national capital.

Amitabh Rawat, Additional Sessions Judge, was hearing Pathan's motion for bail, which was made in October of last year.

It was brought up for hearing after Pathan applied for bail "in view of the threats" he was facing in prison last month.

"This court sees no explanation by any stretch of the imagination to give bail to the candidate or denounced. The judge stated, "Consequently, the bail application... stands dismissed."

He mentioned that the Delhi High Court and the present court had previously denied Pathan's bail plea, and the Delhi High Court had also filed charges against him and others for various offenses under the Indian Penal Code (IPC), including rioting and an attempt to murder, and under the Arms Act.

The court said that the flood of applications regarding the same did not inspire confidence and that the allegations of harassment and torture were "prima facie" for obtaining bail, rejecting Pathan's arguments about "threats from jail officials."

The court stated that the grounds raised in the bail plea, such as the alleged discrepancies in the statements of witnesses or interviews, were dealt with in detail in the earlier orders on bail and charges. None of the accused had challenged the order on the charges passed in December 2021.

According to the report, it was evident from perusing the entire case file that there was no delay in the trial due to the prosecution's fault after the charges were framed.

The court noted that it was primarily due to factors such as accused Kaleem Ahmed pleading guilty during the trial, co-accused persons "purposefully absenting themselves on court dates," and charges being framed against one of the accused, Babu Wasim, who was later arrested.

"It must be noted that the date has always been given according to the choice of the counsel for the accused who, despite the court asking for short dates, had insisted by showing his diary to contend that he does not have dates and that the data be given as per his diary," the court added. "The date has always been given according to the choice of the counsel for the accused."

The court declared Pathan's behavior "completely unsatisfactory" after observing it in the CCTV footage of two separate incidents on January 30 and February 10, as well as when a mobile phone was recovered from the accused inside the prison.

It was noted that Pathan was seen "mingling and having lunch with co-inmates, including gangsters" after leaving the Tihar Jail's videoconferencing room on January 30 and entering a cell on his own accord for two and a half hours without informing the authorities.

The judge noted Pathan's behavior on February 10 in the court-played CCTV footage and stated that the accused was allegedly found once more outside his high-risk ward, where he was seen mingling with "three other hardened prisoners or criminals," and that "from the shadow," he could be seen intentionally beating up an undertrial prisoner and then bandaging him.

Pathan and others had been charged by the Jafrabad police station.