690 Cases Registered, Nearly 2,200 Arrested For Delhi Violence
2,193 other folks had been both detained or arrested in reference to the Delhi violence (Document)
New Delhi:
Delhi police stated on Saturday they’ve registered 690 circumstances and arrested just about 2,200 other folks in reference to remaining month’s communal riots in northeast Delhi which claimed 53 lives and injured over 200.
Of the entire circumstances registered, 48 have been associated with Hands Act, police stated in a observation.
They stated 2,193 other folks had been both detained or arrested in reference to the riots. Of them, 50 had been arrested on fees beneath the Hands Act.
In the meantime, a 27-year-old guy used to be arrested for allegedly being fascinated about some other guy’s killing throughout the violence. The crime department, probing the homicide circumstances registered throughout the riots, arrested Shahnawaz for allegedly killing Dilbar Singh Negi, 20, and is attempting to spot different suspects within the case.
Negi’s, whose decapitated and charred frame used to be present in Brahmpuri on February 26, had come to the capital six months in the past from Uttarakhand’s Pauri Garhwal and labored at a candy store in northeast Delhi.
Additionally on Saturday, a Delhi court docket allowed police 3 extra days’ custodial interrogation of Shahrukh Pathan, who allegedly pointed a gun at an unarmed police head constable throughout the riots in Maujpur.
Pathan, 23, whose pointing a gun at head constable Deepak Dahia had long gone viral on social media, used to be arrested on Tuesday from Uttar Pradesh’s Shamli district.
On Friday, the pistol he pointed at Dahia used to be recovered from his house in northeast Delhi’s Ghonda. In a viral video, Pathan used to be observed pointing his pistol on the policeman on Jaffrabad-Maujpur highway on February 24. After opening fireplace within the air, he stored the pistol at his place of dwelling and fled from town in a automotive.
Police stated after seeing himself on TV information channels, Pathan modified his garments and fled to Punjab. He then moved to Bareilly in UP earlier than hiding at a chum’s place of dwelling in Shamli within the state.
Uttar Pradesh police stated they’ve arrested an alleged drug trafficker suspected to have helped Pathan get away from Delhi after the riots. Kaleem, 28, used to be sought after by way of the Narcotics Mobile of Delhi police in a hashish smuggling case.
AAP councillor Tahir Hussain, who used to be arrested on Thursday in reference to the killing of Intelligence Bureau professional Ankit Sharma throughout the riots, has been despatched to seven-day police custody.
On a grievance by way of Ankit Sharma’s father, police registered an FIR towards Hussain, who has rejected the price. The Aam Aadmi Celebration has suspended him.
On Saturday, the AAP govt introduced a two-day verification pressure to make sure rapid repayment to riots sufferers. An professional stated the federal government has to this point launched just about Rs three crore as repayment to the sufferers, a lot of who’ve been publish at a makeshift camp at an Eidgah in Mustafabad.
As soon as the verification pressure is concluded, the overall listing of sufferers might be ready and the rehabilitation paintings will get started subsequent week, the professional added.
A senior police officer stated 262 conferences with Aman Committee had been carried out around the nationwide capital for the reason that fatal communal violence remaining week.
The Delhi govt has maintained that 53 other folks have been killed and over 200 injured within the violence. All through the violence, head constable Ratan Lal, hooked up to the place of work of the ACP Gokalpuri, used to be killed, whilst a number of police group of workers, together with Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Shahdara, Amit Sharma, have been injured.
