The Delhi Police have named Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Sitaram Yechury, economist Jayati Ghosh, Delhi University professor ...
The Delhi Police have named Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Sitaram Yechury, economist Jayati Ghosh, Delhi University professor Apoorvanand, Swaraj Abhiyan leader Yogendra Yadav and documentary filmmaker Rahul Roy, as people who had “encouraged” the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protestors as part of a plan, The Wire reported on Sunday. However, The Times of India reported that the Delhi Police denied that they have been named as accused.
The chargesheet also annexed two identical ‘disclosure statements’, in which the Delhi Police claimed that Pinjra Tod activists Devangana Kalita and Natasha Narwal admitted to not just their complicity in the violence, but also named Ghosh, Apoorvanand and Roy as their “mentors”, who asked them to carry on the protests even if it led to violence.
But the Delhi Police alleged that the disclosure statement “has been truthfully recorded as narrated by the accused”. “However, a person is not arraigned as an accused only on the basis of a disclosure statement,” the police added. “It is only on the existence of sufficient corroborative evidence that further legal action is taken. The matter is currently sub-judice.”
Yadav said in a tweet that it was true that the Delhi Police had not named them as accused but only in a disclosure statement. But he added:...
