Police also said that a reward will be given to anyone who provides information about the accused in connection with the riots which took place in February this year.
The charge sheet, which names former JNU student leader Umar Khalid and JNU student Sharjeel Imam as accused, said there was a “tacit understanding” between the accused persons to carry out an “illegal” act.
Delhi Police alleged that Sharjeel Imam's academic, religious and oratory instincts were to become an asset for the key conspirators of the case in the days to come.
Communal violence in northeast Delhi had broken out in February this year, following which the Delhi Police had filed a supplementary charge sheet in a court against Khalid and JNU student Sharjeel Imam.
The former political leader had moved the court seeking bail in three cases pertaining to the Delhi riots case. Besides these three, Hussain is an accused in eight other cases of communal riots.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) wants to question the alleged Popular Front of India (PFI) members, who were arrested from Mathura when they were going to meet the Hathras victim's family, in connection with its ongoing money laundering probe into the riots in northeast Delhi in February this year.
Khalid is accused of hatching a criminal conspiracy to cause communal unrest by inciting people protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act and the proposed National Register of Citizens.
A recent chargesheet filed by Special Cell of the Delhi Police in connection with the alleged conspiracy in the Delhi riots case revealed that five accused, slapped with the stringent UAPA, received Rs 1.61 crore to execute the conspiracy.
Delhi Assembly's Peace and Harmony Committee Chief Raghav Chadha said, "We had summoned Facebook India VP and MD Ajit Mohan over its role in Delhi riots.
Former Jawaharlal Nehru University Student leader Umar Khalid was arrested late Sunday for his alleged role in the northeast Delhi riots.
Some of those named have also been charged with -- based on the statements of three students already arrested in the case -- asking the protesters to go to "any extreme", spreading "discontent" in the community by calling CAA/NRC anti-Muslim, and organising demonstrations to "malign the image of Government of India".
The Delhi Police has named CPI (M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury, Swaraj Abhiyan leader Yogendra Yadav, economist Jayati Ghosh and Delhi University professor Apoorvanand in a supplementary charge sheet in the February riots cases, accusing them of "provoking and mobilising" anti-CAA protesters.
Former AAP Councillor Tahir Hussain has been sent to judicial custody (Tihar Jail) in a money laundering case filed against him related to the Delhi Riots case.
A Delhi court Thursday sent JNU student Sharjeel Imam to judicial custody till October 1 in a case related to communal violence in north east Delhi in February.
Months after the Delhi Police named suspended AAP Councillor Tahir Hussain as one of the main conspirators in the Delhi riots, the East MCD on Thursday sacked him from the post of Councillor.
The Special Cell of Delhi police arrested JNU PhD scholar Sharjeel Imam in connection with the February Northeast Delhi riots. He has been booked on the charges of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA).
A Delhi court on Friday took cognisance of the charge sheet filed against suspended AAP councillor Tahir Hussain in the murder case of Intelligence Bureau official Ankit Sharma during communal violence in the city in February, while noting that he provoked his community against the other to promote enmity on the grounds of religion.
Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi, Manish Sisodia alleged that Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal is misusing his power in Delhi riots case.
Safoora Zargar, a pregnant student of Jamia Milia Islamia University, who was arrested in April this year in a case related to Delhi riots, was released from jail on June 24.
The Delhi police on Thursday filed two charge sheets before a Delhi court in connection with the alleged murder of two brothers during the communal violence in north east Delhi in February.
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