The sleuths of Special Investigation Agency (SIT) and Central Crime Station (CCS) have arrested as many as 21 persons allegedly involved in the rioting and arson cases that were reported on Friday. The police in their preliminary have found that three MIM corporators have perpetrated the violence aftermath Friday prayers at Makkah Masjid.
The SIT has claimed that Mohammed Ghouse (Corporator Shahalibanda),Mohsin Balala(Corporator Pathergatti) and Mohammed Mukkaram Ali (Corporator Moghalpura) all three who are absconding have instigated the youths near Makkah Masjid and allegedly asked them to set afire and damage the vehicles belonging to the members of other communities and also police.
The police have registered total 11 cases pertaining to the violence on Friday and have taken up investigation at a larger scale. More arrests are likely to be carried out during night hours.
Those arrested include Mohammed Khaleel, Mohammed Abdul Sadiq, Shaikh Talib, Mohammed Habeeb, Abdul Saif, Syed Ghouse, Mohammed Altaf, Syed Rizwan, Syed Imran, Mohammed Modassir, M Shafi, M Azizullah Khan, M Khusro Hussain, Abdul Qaiyyum, M Anwar, Mirza Ali Hussain Baig Turabi, M Sarwar, M Samdani Pasha, M Parvez Pasha and Mir Mohiuddin Ali.
The police slapped IPC sections such as 153-A (promoting enmity between communities on the basis of religion), 435 (creating mischief by fire), 149 (unlawful assembly) and under 7(1) A (Criminal Amendment Act and Public Property Damage Act) against the accused.
The police said that the accused armed with deadly weapons formed an unlawful assembly in different parts of Old City and violated the prohibitory orders which were in force. They also raised objectionable slogans and burnt public and private vehicles. Police sources said that five cases have been booked separately with Rein Bazaar police station where incidents of violence had been reported.
–Bureau Report