On February 25, 11.21 pm, a person who identified himself Lokesh Solanki allegedly typed out a message on a WhatsApp group: “The whole of l...
On February 25, 11.21 pm, a person who identified himself Lokesh Solanki allegedly typed out a message on a WhatsApp group: “The whole of last night, I roamed around Bhagirathi Vihar, Ganga Vihar, Gokul Puri, Johripur. And smashed open the heads of 23 mullahs.”
The areas listed were epicentres of the communal violence that engulfed North East Delhi between February 24 and 26. The message appears in transcripts submitted by Delhi Police as part of a chargesheet filed in court on June 4.
The police claim these transcripts are verbatim records of the conversations in two WhatsApp groups called “Kattar Hindut Ekta” (extremist Hindu unity) and “Hindu Ekta Group” (Hindu unity) both created on February 25 and used by a group of Hindu men to coordinate attacks on Muslims.
The chargesheet has been filed in connection with first information report number 37/2020 registered at Gokulpuri police station on February 27. The FIR relates to the murder of Aamir Khan, 30, a resident of Mustafabad.
The police claim he is one of at least nine Muslim men waylaid and murdered by a mob near Bhagirathi Vihar over three days. Eleven men have been charged in the case. Nine have been arrested. Lokesh Solanki, 19, is one of...
