Kanpur Nagar Commissioner of Police Vijay Singh Meena set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) on Sunday for a detailed probe into the violence which erupted in the Parade area on Friday. “A SIT has been formed to destroy the network of the accused and check their mobile phone call details. Besides, one more team has been formed. The formation of these teams will decide the progress of the investigation into this case,” Vijay Singh Meena said. Meanwhile, the police arrested seven more accused involved in the Kanpur Nagar violence.
With this, 29 rioters have been arrested so far in the city.
A heavy police force remained deployed in the sensitive localities on Sunday also. Only a few shops opened in the markets and people desisted from going out of their houses. Sources in the police said that during the investigation, it was observed that efforts were made to tamper with and erase footage from the DVRs of CCTVs in the area.
“We will not spare anyone, even those who destroyed the evidence,” Meena said. A senior police official said those involved in stone-pelting had been identified and their posters would be issued on Sunday itself.
“Posters with images of stone-pelting will be put up in different localities with an appeal to the people of the area to help police in getting the stone-pelters identified and arrested,” the official said and added that important documents had been recovered from the main accused, Hayat Zafar Hashmi. He said evidence of the conspiracy had been found by checking Hashmi's WhatsApp and Instagram accounts and the arrested accused had revealed the names of six other people involved in vitiating the peaceful atmosphere of the city.“Our teams are conducting raids to arrest these persons,” the top cop said.