India, Dec. 18 -- New Delhi A Delhi court has acquitted five people of charges of arson and rioting during the 2020 Northeast Delhi riots, after holding that the Delhi Police probed in a mechanical manner and falsely implicated the accused to show that it had solved the case.

Additional Sessions Judge Praveen Singh of Karkardooma Courts, through an order passed on December 11, observed, "I find that the prosecution has failed to prove its case beyond all reasonable doubts and all the accused entitled to a benefit of doubt. The accused are accordingly acquitted for all the charges framed against them."

Questioning the police investigation conducted after taking the five men into custody, the court observed, ".the sole testimony of PW4 (p...