NEW DELHI:
Shahrukh Pathan who had allegedly pointed a gun at a police head constable during the 2020 Delhi riots on Thursday told a court that he did not fire shots at the cop and merely wanted to scare him and not kill, a claim opposed by the prosecution.
A photograph of Pathan pointing a gun at Delhi Police head constable Deepak Dahiya had gone viral on social media during the communal riots last year.
To show that there was no attempt to murder the cop, senior advocate Menaka Guruswamy, representing Pathan, played a 26-seconds long video of the incident in the court and said that the accused fired two shots - one in the air and second to his right, following which he had a heated conversation with Dahiya and turned back