‘ Khurshid, Karat gave provocative speeches at anti- CAA protest site’
Delhi Police, in its chargesheet related to Delhi riots in February, have named senior Congress leader and former Union minister Salman Khurshid, Udit Raj and CPI ( M) leader Brinda Karat for giving provocative speeches during the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act ( CAA).
The 17,000- page chargesheet filed on September 16 in a court here gave the sequence of events leading to largescale violence in which former JNU student Umar Khalid and his junior in the university Sharjeel Imam were part of the alleged conspiracy along with their associates to incite communal feelings of a particular community and instigate students of a particular community against the CAA and the state.
The chargesheet also mentioned that the protected witness stated, under section 161 ( examination by police) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the names of several leaders including Udit Raj, Salman Khurshid and Brinda Karat. All of them had come to the Khureji protest site and gave “provocative speeches”, as per the chargesheet.
The Delhi Police has referred to former Congress Councillor Ishrat Jahan and a protected witness in a case related to the northeast Delhi riots and said that they told about the speeches in their disclosure statements.
“Several known persons like Khurshid, filmmaker Rahul Roy and Bhim Army member Himanshu were called by her and activist Khalid Saifi on the instructions of Jamia Coordination Committee ( JCC),” as per chargesheet.
As per witness, several big names used to come to the Khureji site to give speeches against CAA.