The Delhi Police has arrested 10 people for their alleged involvement in the violence near South East Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI). Police said that all the ten men arrested are not students of JMI and they all also have a criminal background.
The arrests were made after the police scanned the videos that had gone viral on the social media and also footages obtained from the area CCTVs and open source intelligence.
Those arrested were later produced before the concerned court and then sent to 14 days judicial custody. Police officials said more such arrests are likely as the investigation progresses.
According to a senior police official, the accused were identified through videos taken during the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protest at JMI on Sunday. The accused persons were arrested on Monday night.
“Police teams are interrogating them and also identifying other accused persons who were involved in instigating the mob. Other than videos which were circulated on social media, the police teams are looking at the footages in New Friends Colony (NFC) area, where most of the vehicles were also damaged by the protesters, to identify them,” said a police official.
The university had virtually turned into a battlefield on Sunday as police entered the campus following protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act. The protest turned violent and arsonists took over and four DTC buses were torched, 100 private vehicles and 10 police bikes were damaged.
The situation remained tense in the university premises on Tuesday as protesters, including students and local residents, converged outside the varsity holding tricolour and placards to continue their demonstration against CAA and NRC.
Braving freezing cold, they took out small marches outside the varsity, shouting slogans against the Government. This is the second consecutive day of peaceful protests after the demonstration on Sunday turned violent.
Metropolitan Magistrate (MM) Kamran Khan earlier sent six of the 10 arrested people — Mohammad Hanif, Danish alias Jafar, Sameer Ahmed, Dilshad, Shareef Ahmed, Mohd Danish — to judicial custody after police sought their custodial interrogation for 14 days.
The court after a while also sent the other four —Yunus Khan, Jumman, Anal Hassan, Anwar Kala to judicial custody.
Police had on Monday arrested them for their alleged involvement in the violence near Jamia Millia Islamia University here, it had said, adding that none of them were students.