New Delhi: Delhi police on Tuesday arrested six people in connection with inflammatory sloganeering near Jantar Mantar on Sunday.
They have been identified as a former spokesman for BJP Ashwini Upadhyay, Vinod Sharma, Deepak Singh, Vinit Kranti, Preeth Singh, Deepak.
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Many people raised the identified slogans and teams were doing raids to arrest them, said an official.
The main suspects were Uttam Malik, Vineet aka Kranti, Singh and Bhupender Tomar, who went with aka Pinky Chaudhary and Pinky Bhaiya, said an officer.
An unpleasant slogan grew up on an event against “Colonial Law” held near Jantar Mantar.
The police said they had not given permission to protest being called by Ashwini Upadhyay’s lawyer, a former BJP spokesman.
Upadhyay also tends to face action, add officers.
The man wearing orange kurta in the video has been identified as Malik.
Singh’s dipak owned by Northeast Delhi while Pinky Bhaiya came from Ghaziabad.
He was previously involved in an effort to attack CM Arvind KeRriwal and also responsible for violence in JNU last year.
He was included in the group called Hindu Raksha Dal.
Upadhyay had claimed that he did not raise offensive slogans and that the incident did not occur until when he was there.
In a video message, Upadhyay said: “If the video is true, the police must investigate.
I also do not know the people seen in the video, I also did not call them.
In fact, until when I was there, there was no sloganeering that happened.
I think the video is made to slander our protests.
If at all the video is fake, then it must be propaganda and the police must investigate.
“” I have filed a complaint.
I also begged the government to take strict action against people who spread disharmony.
Their property must be confiscated and they must be given longer prison provisions, “he added.
Deepak Yadav, Deputy Commissioner of Police (New Delhi), said: “The case below Section 188 was due to violations of Covid guidelines, 153A (promoting hostility between groups that were different from the reasons of religion, race, birthplace) and other IPC parts have been registered.
Some people have been registered.
What is seen in the video has been identified.
“Jaspal Singh, Joint CP New Delhi Range added that the raid was being carried out to arrest them.
Meanwhile, Okhla Mla Amanatullah Khan had written to Delhi police who demanded upadhyay’s arrest.
He said that strict parts such as NSA or UPA will be slapped to have perpetrators from other communities.
(With input from Ani)