Metropolitan Magistrate Shilpi Jain acquitted former President of Delhi University Students' Union (DUSU) Nakul Bhardwaj of the offence under section 427 (mischief causing damage to the amount of fifty rupees) of the IPC.
He was earlier discharged of the offence of criminal intimidation under section 506 of IPC.
"In the fact and circumstances, case of prosecution is not supported by key/eye witnesses, as they have deposed nothing incriminating against the accused...The offence has not been proved beyond reasonable doubt and benefit of doubt goes to the accused. Accordingly, Nakul Bhardwaj stands acquitted," the magistrate said.
Bhardwaj, instead, entered the office and started hurling abuses at the professor, who is now retired, and breaking property inside the library, it was alleged.
However, the complainant and two other prosecution witnesses denied the incident while deposing in court and also failed to identify the accused.
"All the three key witnesses failed to identify accused as well as case property. All three of them have categorically deposed they cannot identify the accused," the court said.
The complainant has alleged in the plea that such slogans
were shocking, damaging for the country and an open challenge to its unity and safety and the judicial system.
It has alleged that organisers of the seminar had misled the college administration to obtain the nod for the event and "conducted activities against the nation and tried to wage a war against the country".
It has sought lodging of an FIR for the alleged offences of sedition, criminal conspiracy, waging war against the State and defamation under the IPC.
The next day violent clashes erupted between Left and ABVP students leaving several students and three teachers injured.
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