This is a summary of the Delhi Police’s investigation in the riots conspiracy case based on a chargesheet it submitted to the court in Sept...
This is a summary of the Delhi Police’s investigation in the riots conspiracy case based on a chargesheet it submitted to the court in September 2020.
A week after 53 people were killed in communal riots in North East Delhi, the Crime Branch of Delhi Police filed a first information report on March 6.
Numbered 59/2020, the FIR was the seed of what is now known as the Delhi riots conspiracy case.
A senior inspector claimed in the FIR that an informer had tipped him off that the February communal violence was the outcome of a planned conspiracy by Umar Khalid, a former student leader of the Jawaharlal Nehru University, and his associates.
Khalid made provocative speeches asking people to block the roads on February 24-25 when United States President Donald Trump was visiting India, the FIR alleged, with the aim of “spreading propaganda at the international level about minorities being subjected to atrocities in India”.
Khalid and his associates mobilised women and children for street protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act across Delhi. They even collected arms and ammunition inside homes, the FIR alleged.
On February 23, the protestors blocked the road outside Jafrabad metro station, the FIR claimed, “so that nearby residents are put to trouble and the...
