Delhi riots: Chargesheet against 20 for killing 2

The Delhi police, on Thursday, filed a chargesheet against 20 people in connection with the killing of four Muslim youths, including two brothers, during the recent communal riots in the national capital. The police also filed another chargesheet against 12 people, who were arrested for the death of two persons in a sweet shop during the riots.

In the first chargesheet, the police said that Dilbar Negi, who worked at a sweet shop in Northeast Delhi’s Shiv Vihar area, was burnt alive inside the shop when a Muslim mob targeted properties of Hindus during the communal violence in Northeast Delhi. The police had named 12 persons as accused in the murder case of Dilbar Negi.

All the accused, who have been charged for offences

of murder, rioting, and promoting enmity between groups on the ground of religion and criminal conspiracy, are in judicial custody.

According to the chargesheet, a mob of Muslim community came from Brijpuri Pulia side in

Northeast Delhi and started rioting, targeting properties of Hindus and continued torching them till late night on February 24.

The chargesheet has been filed under various sections including Sections 147 and 148 (rioting and punishment for rioting), 149, 153A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, etc.), 302 (murder), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence), and 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code.

During investigation, it was found that a WhatsApp group was created on the intervening night of February 25-26 during the peak rioting and two of its members have been arrested, the chargesheet said.

The group had 125 members and while some of its members were only sending and receiving messages, few others were involved in “active rioting,” the police said.