India, May 23 -- NEW DELHI

A Delhi court on Friday framed charges against 13 persons, including Congress leader Asif Muhammad Khan, and discharged 12 others in the 2007 Jamia Nagar riots case, nearly 19 years after mob violence erupted outside the Jamia Nagar police post in southeast Delhi.

The order was passed by special judge Vishal Gogne of Rouse Avenue Courts, in a case filed at the New Friends Colony police station on charges of rioting, attempt to murder, arson, assault on public servants, dacoity and damage to public property.

According to the police, represented by additional public prosecutor Manish Rawat, the violence took place on the evening of September 22, 2007, after police allegedly removed a market near a burial ground...