Web Live News

Apoorvanand was summoned for questioning as the Special Cell (New Delhi Range) claimed to have found links with the students’ outfit, Pinjra Tod, and with a WhatsApp group called the ‘Delhi Protests Support Group (DPSG)’.

The Delhi Police Special Cell questioned Delhi University Professor Apoorvanand for about five hours on Monday in connection with the Northeast Delhi riots. The police later seized his phone.

Apoorvanand was brought for addressing as the Special Cell (New Delhi Range) professed to have discovered connections with the understudies’ outfit, Pinjra Tod, and with a WhatsApp, bunch called the ‘Delhi Protests Support Group (DPSG)’.

A senior cop disclosed to The Indian Express: “The teacher, who shows Hindi at Delhi University, was called on August 1. He was addressed at Lodhi Colony (on Monday), at first by an ACP rank official and afterward the DCP (Special Cell).

He was gotten some information about his relationship with a WhatsApp bunch framed in December 2019. We have not discovered implicating posts from his side, however, he was gotten some information about his relationship with other gathering individuals and how he had met them. He was likewise asked where he was during the Northeast Delhi riots and the brutality in and around the Jamia grounds in December, and about his relationship with Pinjra Tod and the Jamia Coordination Committee (JCC).”

Anil Mittal, the Delhi Police Additional PRO, affirmed that Apoorvanand had been addressed at the Lodhi Colony office “for a situation identifying with the Northeast Delhi riots”, and that his telephone was taken “as a feature of the examination”.

Sources said 15-20 individuals from the WhatsApp bunch have been addressed up until this point — most as of late previous JNU understudy pioneer Umar Khalid, whose telephone was additionally seized.

Apoorvanand revealed to The Indian Express that while the police were “gracious” in their scrutinizing, their “story” that individuals who upheld the counter CAA dissidents were “one of the primary wellsprings of brutality” in the mobs was “stressing”.

“The discussion with the police was polite. I do acknowledge and regard the privilege and plan of the police to investigate all probabilities while exploring the viciousness that hit Delhi. The police reserve each privilege to look for collaboration of any resident in its quest for truth,” he said.

“It is stressing to see an account getting assurance that one of the primary wellsprings of savagery were the individuals who were supporting the dissidents. Fights, even chakka jam, can’t be treated as savagery. Also, viciousness on them can’t be viewed as a response to this,” he said.

He said it “would not serve the reason for equity if the prompting of savagery against the dissidents by incredible political pioneers is disregarded”.

“I trust that the focal point of the examination would be on the genuine culprits of the viciousness which, truth be told, directed and crushed the fights and furthermore caused the loss of work and lives of the individuals of Delhi,” he said.

Following the February revolts, an FIR was enrolled on March 6, in light of data given by a source to Sub-Inspector Arvind Kumar. According to the FIR, Kumar said the source disclosed to him that the savagery was a “planned intrigue” and named a few people.

The case was moved to the Special Cell, which was entrusted with researching a “bigger intrigue” behind the uproars; the unit has since conjured the rigid UAPA against a few people.

Nineteen individuals have been captured by the Special Cell up until this point, including 15 under the UAPA. Four have bail, while 15 are still in prison. The 15 incorporate Pinjra Tod’s Devangana Kalita and Natasha Narwal, who is additionally part of the WhatsApp bunch being referred to.