Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court recently convicted two Aam Aadmi Party MLAs, Akhilesh Pati Tripathi and Sanjeev Jha, along with 15 others, for being part of a mob that attacked policemen at Burari police station in north Delhi in 2015. The court said that both the politicians had played a major role provoking and instigating the crowd.
The conviction orders were issued by Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Vaibhav Mehta who — apart from Mr. Tripathi and Mr. Jha — has also convicted Balram Jha, Shyam Gopal Gupta, Kishore Kumar, Lalit Mishra, Jagdish Chandra Joshi, Narender Singh Rawat, Neeraj Pathak, Raju Malik, Ashok Kumar, Ravi Prakash Jha, Ismail Islam, Manoj Kumar, Vijay Pratap Singh, Heera Devi, and Yashwant.
Ten other accused persons were acquitted by the judge in the same case.
