The Delhi police in its supplementary chargesheet filed before court on Tuesday said that a WhatsApp group played crucial role in igniting Communal violence which led to north east Delhi Riots in February this year.
A WhatsApp group “Kattar Hindu Ekta”, allegedly promoted enimity between differnet groups targetting their religions, according to the chargesheet. It also said that the group was formed on February 25 to harm Muslim community in the name of revenge.
In the excrepts of chats of the group filed in the chargesheet, one of the members alleged that members of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh(RSS) have lent their support to the WhatsApp group in their propoganda against the Muslim community. Some other chats from the group showed members using communal slurs and talking about vandalising madarsas, mosques and getting rid of all the muslims from the country.
The said chargesheet was filed before Chief Metorpolitan Purushottam Pathak against nine people on September 25. The charge sheet was filed in the case related to the murder of Hashim Ali who was allegedly killed during communal riots in Gokulpuri area.
“As per the chat of Whatsapp group, the accused persons… conspired to teach Muslims a lesson for attacking the Hindus. Equipped themselves with lathis. danda, sticks, swords, firearms etc and killed nine innocent Muslims persons including Hashim Ali and his brother Aamir Khan. It is prima facie revealed that there was a well hatched conspiracy amongst the accused persons.
“Same is also evident from the fact that in order to take revenge from Muslims some youths of that area who failed to perceive the bottomless stupidity of the propaganda, they as saviours of their community created a Whatsapp group. The group members lost their individuality and started working with mob mind. ‘Jai Sri Ram’ and ‘Har Har Mahadev’ which are the sacred slogans and are attached to the victorious yelling, deaden their mind and paralyzed their creative nature. They planned the manner of committing offence of rioting, murder and other offences…,” police alleged in the charge sheet.
The supplementary charge sheet further said that police has booked accused – Lokesh Kumar Solanki, Pankaj Sharma, Summit Chaudhary, Ankit Chaudhary, Prince, Jatin Sharma, Vivek Panchal, Rishabh Chaudhary, Himanshu Thakur– under section 153-A(promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language etc) and 505 (public mischief) of the Indian Penal Code.
It said co-accused Monty Nagar, Avdesh Mishra,Monu, Sahil, Shekhar, Mongli, Baba, Tinku and Vinay could not be tressed as of now.
Communal violence had erupted in northeast Delhi on February 24 between citizenship law supporters and protestors which left 53 people dead and over 200 injured.
