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Congress's Delhi legislator gets 3 years jail for rioting
Tuesday January 29, 2013 08:57:04 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: A Delhi
court Tuesday sentenced Congress legislator Mateen Ahmed and his
associate Zameer Ahmed to three years jail for rioting and
obstructing government officials on duty.
Metropolitan Magistrate Dharmender Rana convicted Mateen Ahmad,
the legislator from Seelampur and Zameer Ahmed, an ex-councillor,
for rioting and obstructing government officials closing down
polluting industries in 2001 while implementing the Supreme Court
orders.
He also imposed a fine of Rs.30,000 on each on both.
The court, however, suspended the sentences for a month to enable
them to file an appeal against the judgment and granted them bail
on a personal bond of Rs.20,000 each with one surety till then.
Rana, terming the accused "insouciant" members of the legislative
assembly and municipal corporation, convicted them for rioting,
assaulting and causing hurt to deter public servants from
discharge of their duty.
"The convicts in the instant case are reported to be members of
legislative assembly and municipal corporation of Delhi. It is
their primary task to legislate for the benefit of society. A
person who frames law within the precincts of the temple of
democracy is not expected to impudently defy the same on the roads
in full public gaze."
"A leader is expected to lead by conduct. This court is at loss to
comprehend what message the convicts were trying to convey to the
society," the judgment said.
"It is a very dangerous trend for our democracy that some persons
openly and impudently dare to defy the judgments of the apex court
and consider themselves to be law unto themselves," the magistrate
added.
On Jan 7, 2001, when Punjabi Bagh circle sub-divisional magistrate
E. Raja Babu, along with his team, had gone to Jafrabad area in
northeast Delhi to seal the factory, Mateen Ahmed and the other
five accused obstructed and assaulted the team of officials, as
per the prosecution.
Of the other four accused, two died during trial and two others
were acquitted.
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