The Crime Branch of Delhi Police on Thursday arrested former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student Umar Khalid in another case for his alleged role in the Northeast Delhi riots that took place in February this year. The Court also sent Khalid to three days police custody.
According to a senior police official, Khalid has been booked in connection with a case of Khajuri Khas violence during the riots in Northeast Delhi. “He has been taken into three days police custody by the crime branch which has been probing the riot-related cases,” he said.
A First Information Report (FIR) number 101 of rioting was registered at the Khajuri Khas Police Station in which 15 people, including suspended AAP Councillor Tahi Hussain, were arrested for their alleged role in the riots that occurred at about 2.15 pm on February 24 outside the Hussain's house in Delhi's Chand Bagh area.
Earlier on September 24, a Delhi court had sent the Delhi riots accused Khalid to judicial custody till October 22. He was arrested on September 13. He was sent to judicial custody after the Delhi Police did not seek his further custody.
Delhi Police in its chargesheet, filed on September 16, related larger conspiracy in Delhi riots during February alleged that Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam had decided to use social media for large scale indoctrination and mobilisation of youths for Chakka Jaam as a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).
The 17,000-page chargesheet in a court here gave the sequence of events leading to largescale violence in which former JNU student Khalid and his junior in the university 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 police in the chargesheet alleged that Khalid, Swaraj Abhiyan leader Yogender Yadav and Imam have decided to use social media for large scale indoctrination and mobilisation of youths for Chakka Jaam as a protest against CAA.
It further alleged that Imam was the mastermind of Shaheen Bagh blockade, the first protest site.
The police report stated that on December 7,2019, an agitation against the CAA was called at Jantar Mantar by United Against Hate, citizen's campaign, which was attended by Imam along with members o a WhatsApp group Muslim Students of JNU .
It said that at Jantar Mantar Imam was introduced to Yogender Yadav by Khalid, his senior and mentor from JNU.
“Sharjeel Imam was on an earlier occasion instructed by Umar Khalid to form a group of like minded groups of JNU, Jamia Millia, AMU and DU. Yogender Yadav and Umar Khalid also instructed him to mobilise the students of Jamia Millia, AMU and DU,” as per chargesheet.
“The police have stated that as per the pre-planned conspiracy accused Sharjeel Imam along with other associates started distributing pamphlets which contained such contents meant to incite communal feelings of a particular community and instigate students of a particular community against the CAA and the state,” the charge sheet alleged.