A chance encounter with three curious bystanders led the police to tracking down the murderers of nine Muslim men killed during the communa...
A chance encounter with three curious bystanders led the police to tracking down the murderers of nine Muslim men killed during the communal violence that gripped North East Delhi in February, according to a chargesheet filed in the court on June 4.
In the chargesheet, Delhi Police claims one of its teams was on the ground investigating the murder of a Muslim man in Gokalpuri when the officers noticed three men hovering in the area, trying to snoop on their conversations. The police caught them and inquired about their motives. When Mohit Sharma, Dimple Pal and Shivam Bharadwaj struggled to explain their presence in the area, their mobile phones were checked.
This is how Delhi Police claims it stumbled on a WhatsApp group called “Kattar Hindut Ekta” – extremist Hindu unity. The purported group was created at 12.49 am on February 25 and, according to the chargesheet, contained extrajudicial confessions of rioting and murder by its members.
North East Delhi experienced widespread communal violence between February 24 and 26 in which 53 people lost their lives. The police have claimed nine Muslim men fell to a mob that coordinated violence using WhatsApp groups – a second group was called “Hindu Ekta”. The transcripts of both the...
