India, Nov. 4 -- A Delhi court has acquitted five men accused of being part of a mob that vandalised and set fire to a mosque in northeast Delhi's Karawal Nagar during the Northeast Delhi riots in 2020, holding that the prosecution failed to establish their involvement because of serious contradictions in eyewitness accounts and lapses in proving CCTV footage.

Additional Sessions Judge Parveen Singh of the Karkardooma courts, in a judgement passed on October 31, observed that the two police personnel presented as eyewitnesses gave accounts that were inconsistent with the testimony of a resident living opposite the mosque.

The court also ruled that the CCTV footage relied upon by the prosecution was inadmissible because the accompanying ...