Court convicts Assembly Speaker for house-trespass

Delhi | Saturday | 12th October, 2019

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New Delhi, October 11Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel was on Friday convicted by a court here for trespassing the house of a realtor in an East Delhi colony in 2015. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal held Goel and four others saying the case against them was proved beyond reasonable doubts. Accordingly, Ram Niwas Goel, Sumit Goyal, Hitesh Khanna, Atul Gupta and Balbir Singh are convicted for offence under Section 448 (house-trespass) of the IPC...,” the court said. It also convicted co-accused Sumit Goyal under Section 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), besides the offence of house-trespass. A case of rioting, trespassing, causing mischief and voluntarily causing hurt was lodged against the accused..