New Delhi: Police chargesheet filed in connection with the February riots in Delhi included senior Congress leader and former Union Minister Salman Khurshid, CPI (M) leader Brinda Karat and Udit Raj.
Police have cited these speeches in their statements, citing former Congress councilor Ishrat Jahan and a security witness in the riots case in northeast Delhi.
The charge sheet states that the security witness has recorded in his statement recorded under Section 161 of the Code of Criminal Procedure that many eminent people like leaders Udit Raj, Khurshid, Brinda Karat had come to the protest venue in Khureji and they Gave “inflammatory speeches”.
The charge sheet further states that Jahan alleged in his statement that people like Khurshid, filmmaker Rahul Roy, and Himanshu, a member of the Bhim Army, and activist Khalid Saifi had called the Jamia Coordination Committee (JCC) to continue anti-CAA protests ) Was called upon instructions.
