The Delhi Police have said that a group of men killed nine Muslims after they refused to chant “Jai Shri Ram” during the large-scale commun...
The Delhi Police have said that a group of men killed nine Muslims after they refused to chant “Jai Shri Ram” during the large-scale communal violence that broke out in the North East district of the Capital in February, PTI reported on Friday. The accused used a WhatsApp group to coordinate their activities and offer manpower or ammunition when required.
The WhatsApp group – Kattar Hindu Ekta – was created on February 25 at 12.49 pm “to take revenge on Muslims,” the police said in a chargesheet. The members bragged about “killing Muslims” and “dumping their bodies in the sewer”, according to The Indian Express. Initially the group had about 125 members. By March 8, a total of 47 members had exited the group, as per the chargesheet. The police plan to use the WhatsApp conversations as “extrajudicial confessions”.
The chargesheets were filed before Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Kumar Gautam on June 29 for the alleged murder of nine people – Hamza, Aamin, Bhure Ali, Mursalin, Aas Mohd, Musharraf, Akil Ahmed, and Hashim Ali and his elder brother Aamir Khan.
Investigation revealed that the accused bludgeoning nine Muslims to death in the Ganga Vihar-Bhagirathi Vihar area between the morning of February 25 and February 26 midnight. Several people were...
