India, Sept. 15 -- A court has convicted five men for rioting and assaulting police personnel in a case related to violence at a Bhajanpura petrol pump during the 2020 northeast Delhi riots, saying the prosecution has proved that the five were part of an unlawful mob that attacked policemen on duty. However, the court acquitted them of the charge of setting the petrol pump on fire, holding that there were "very serious doubts" about the prosecution's claim that the mob had torched the fuel station.

Additional Sessions Judge Parveen Singh was hearing the case against Arif, Mohd Khalid, Abdul Sattar, Tanveer Ali, and Hunain.

In an order dated September 9, the court said, "This unlawful assembly attacked them by pelting stones upon them an...