Two minors accused in the Nido Tania murder case have been released on probation for a year and asked to pay a fine of Rs. 10,000 each by a court of Juvenile Justice Board on Wednesday. Now, <g data-gr-id="23">Farman,</g> is <g data-gr-id="22">the only</g> accused presently lodged in jail since his arrest.
The minors, who had allegedly assaulted Tania, are facing an inquiry before the Juvenile Justice Board in New Delhi. Tania was allegedly beaten at Lajpat Nagar in South Delhi on January 29 last year as he got into a brawl with local shopkeepers while reacting to a verbal racial slur and taunts on his hairstyle. When he didn’t wake up the next day, his friends took him to the AIIMS where he was
declared dead.
Initially, Delhi police had slapped murder charge against the accused but Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) dropped the murder charge and booked the seven persons including three juveniles under culpable homicide not amounting to murder besides adding sections of illegal confinement <g data-gr-id="26"><g data-gr-id="21">and and</g> SC/ST</g> atrocities Act. The four adult accused in this case are Farman, Pawan, Sunder and Sunny Uppal. Except Farman rest of the three are out on bail.
Nido Tania (19), son of a Congress MLA from Arunachal Pradesh, Nido Pavitra, was a BA first year student at a private university. His lynching on such a petty issue in the heart of National Capital sparked protest among the North East community and even became a poll plank in Delhi during Lok Sabha Election 2014.