04/06/2020
The Delhi Police in its fresh chargesheet filed in the Karkardooma court in connection with the northeast Delhi riots case has claimed that suspended AAP councillor Tahir Hussain "prepared for the riots well in advance".
In the chargesheet filed against suspended Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) councillor Tahir Hussain, the Delhi Police has alleged that the planning for the communal riots in Delhi began a month earlier in January,
The Police has stated in the charge sheet that on 8 January, more than a month before the riots took place, Hussain had met with former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student Umar Khalid and also Khalid Saifi of the United Against Hate banner at Shaheen Bagh.
As per the charge sheet filed at Delhi's Karkardooma Court on Tuesday (2 June), at their meeting, Khalid had allegedly asked Hussain "to be prepared for something big/riots at the time of Trump's visit" and also that "he and other PFI members will help him financially."
In the police questioning, Hussain is said to have claimed that Saifi had provided him with money and that in the second week of January, Saifi had transferred Rs 1.1 crore to the accounts of fake companies owned by him. Hussain later received the cash through a chain of transactions and began the preparations for the riots.
Hussain is also said to have accepted that he distributed cash to anti-CAA protesters. He had also got his licensed pistol released from the Khajuri Khas police station when he had learnt that some people had organised pro-CAA demonstrations nearby, so as to teach them a lesson.
