Tahir prepared for riots well in advance: Cops
Chargesheet filed against suspended AAP councillor, 14 others
Following the violence that took place in Chand Bagh area of Northeast Delhi in February this year, the Delhi police on Tuesday filed a chargesheet and named suspended AAP councillor Tahir Hussain, the mastermind who organised the violence in the region for which he spent around Rs 1.10 crore.
The police, in its chargesheet, also named Shah Alam (brother of Hussain) along with 15 others as accused in the case.
The chargesheet was filed at Karkardooma court by the crime branch of Delhi police. The police filed two chargesheets in connection with the riots, one was related to Hussain and the other was related to the murder and riot case in Jaffrabad, the officials said.
According to the 1,030page chargesheet, during the course of the investigation the police found several suspicious transactions into the account of two companies that Tahir owns.
The chargesheet stated that Hussain also disclosed that from the account of companies owned by him, he allegedly transferred around `1.10 crore to alleged fake companies. Subsequently, he got that amount in the second week of January, 2020, in cash through a chain of transactions. Thereafter, he started his preparations and distributed cash to anti-CAA protestors.
During interrogation, Hussain admitted his involvement in the riots and also admitted that he was present at the terrace of his house at the time of the incident.
The police said he disclosed that he was in touch with other anti-CAA protesters of Delhi and admitted to have met Khalid Saifi (from United Against Hate) and Umar Khalid (from JNU) at the Shaheen Bagh anti-CAA protest site (their CDR analysis prove their locations together) on January 8, where Khalid told him to be prepared for something big at the time of visit of the US president. He also said that he and other PFI members will help him financially.
He further disclosed that Khalid Saifi gave him some money initially for the preparations, the chargesheet said.
The police said in the chargesheet that a day prior to the riots in Delhi, Hussain got his pistol released from the Khajuri Khas police station on February 22. However, during interrogation he couldn’t give any satisfactory reply on why he got his pistol released.