The Delhi Police have detained five people, including Bharatiya Janata Party leader Ashwini Upadhyay , for their alleged involvement in the...
The Delhi Police have detained five people, including Bharatiya Janata Party leader Ashwini Upadhyay, for their alleged involvement in the incident where inflammatory slogans calling for violence against Muslims were shouted at a rally in Jantar Mantar on Sunday, The Indian Express reported on Tuesday.
The four other men were identified as Deepak Singh Hindu, Vineet Kranti, Preet Singh and Vinod Sharma, an unidentified senior police officer told the newspaper.
However, an NDTV report said that six people, including Upadhyay, had been arrested. ANI also put the number of those held at six, but said that they had been detained. The Delhi Police have not yet given an official statement.
Deepak Singh was reportedly the first person to be detained late on Monday night after police took him into custody from his home in Delhi’s Karawal Nagar area, according to The Indian Express. A team of the inter-state cell of the Delhi Police Crime Branch, under Special Commissioner of Police Praveen Ranjan, was conducting raids to detain the men.
“A team was stationed outside Deepak’s house and he was picked up around 12.40 am when he returned from outside,” an unidentified police officer told The Indian Express. “Police are questioning him about others at the event.”
On Monday, the police had filed a first information report in the case...
