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Police has asked for maximum punishment in the death of Intelligence Bureau official Ankit Sharma. Charge sheet has put together how, according to the police, Ankit Sharma, who had allegedly gone to the spot to calm tensions between the mob, was singled out, attacked and killed by rioters.
Ankit Sharmá’s body was pulled out of a drain in Chand Bagh on 26 February, while riots still raged in Delhi. The death had come to light while the northeast Delhi riots were still ravaging parts of the capital in February 2020.
His father, Ravinder Kumar said that Ankit had stepped out of their home around 5 pm on 25 February evening but never returned. His father filed a missing person’s report on 26 February, but a few hours later, around 12 pm Ankit’s body had been found in the drain at Chand Bagh.
Kumar said that Ankit had returned home and left the house on 25 February around 5 pm to get some things for the house, but never came back. His father went out looking for him, visited the various hospitals in the locality, waited overnight, and reached the police station the next morning to file a missing persons report.
Even after the complaint was filed, his father was persistent in trying to locate his son. He kept asking anyone he thought would know, who Ankit was with. Eventually someone told him that some boys were killed in a mosque close to the Chand Bagh Puliya and their bodies were dumped thereafter in the drains. With the help of authorities, Ankit’s body was pulled out of the drain.
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His family welcomed the charge sheet on 3 June and thanked the authorities. His elder brother Ankur Sharma said, “Since my brother was killed and left in the drain, we have been waiting for justice. We want the rioters, who killed my brother, to be hung to death. I also request the central government to give my brother the status of a martyr.”
Piecing together what had happened after Ankit had stepped out and when his body was dumped in the drain, the Delhi police has recorded, under Section 161 of CrPC, the statements of various public witnesses. Thirteen of whom they have named.
The witnesses have alleged that on 25 February Ankit had tried to mediate between the two crowds. He moved ahead of the Hindu who were standing slightly away from suspended AAP councilor Tahir Hussain’s home, in a bid to pacify people from both sides. However, the rioters, which were around 20-25 in number and were holding stones, rods, lathi (sticks) and knives in their hand, came from the side of Chand Bagh Pulia, caught hold of Ankit and pulled him in.
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