Ranchi: Eight days after the Jharkhand Police dropped murder charge against 11 accused in the mob lynching case of young Muslim man Tabrez Ansari, they brought back the same charge on the accused Wednesday after obtaining a fresh medical report, an official said here.
Tabrez Ansari was seen on national television being beaten up with rods while tied to a pole and forced to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ over alleged theft in June.
Based on a fresh medical report, the police Wednesday filed a supplementary chargesheet before a court in Seraikela-Kharsawan district, retaining Section 302 of the IPC (murder) against the 11 accused, the official informed.
The police also filed chargesheet against the remaining two accused charging them with murder after completing investigation against them.
The police had September 10 dropped murder charges against all the 13 accused in the mob lynching case and converted it into one of culpable homicide not amounting to murder (Section 304 of the IPC) on the basis of post-mortem, medical and forensic reports which said 24-year-old Ansari died of cardiac arrest.
The quantum of punishment under Section 302 is death or imprisonment for life and fine. However for Section 304 it is imprisonment for life or imprisonment for 10 years or fine or both.
The official said, as the previous medical report stating that Tabrez Ansari’s death was caused due to cardiac arrest was not clear, the police took a second opinion of specialist doctors from the MGM Medical College and Hospital in Jamshedpur.
“On the basis of main findings, we opined that (1) The fracture of bone is grievous injury caused by hard & blunt object. (2). The combined effect of fracture of bone, pale organs and heart chambers full of blood resulting into cardiac arrest,” the report by fresh board of doctors said.
PTI