Republic Day Violence: Delhi Police has paced up its probe into the alleged role of Khalistani outfits in the unprecedented vandalism at the historic Red Fort and in the rampage that tore across the national capital on Republic Day. As per sources placed in Delhi Police, it has come to light that several Khalistani Twitter accounts are on the radar of the cops.
The alleged Twitter accounts had posted several inciting tweets during the tractors’ rally on Republic Day, thus instigating the protesters to take a violent turn.
Sources have stated that such accounts are being identified and a dump of their content is being taken. Delhi Police is also working on finding out more details.
More than 300 Twitter handles linked to Pakistan created to disrupt tractor’s rally:
Earlier, Delhi Police had said more than 300 Twitter handles have been traced to Pakistan that have been created to sabotage the rally, which was announced earlier this month amid farmers' standoff with the government.
Khalistani links being probed:
It is to be noted that the role of Khalistani outfit Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), which was banned in 2019 under the UAPA act has been under the scanner of the investigating agencies. Earlier in January, the Delhi Police had registered a case against SFJ on January 8 for trying to permeate to the protests.
The farmer unions protesting against the three farm laws alleged that there was a conspiracy behind the violence, which left 394 police personnel injured and one protestor dead.
On Tuesday, hundreds of farmers riding on tractors, motorcycles and cars entered into the premises of Red Fort with the tricolour and flags of the farmers' unions in their hands. The farmers, who outnumbered the security forces and police personnel, soon climbed on the ramparts of the monument and hoisted their flags there.
No Khalistani flag on Red Fort:
Soon after the violence, there were reports that Khalistani flag was hoisted atop Red Fort. However, farmer leaders made it clear that there was no Khalistani flag waved on the iconic Red Fort.
Punjabi actor Deep Sidhu who is accused for the flag incident, had said in a Facebook live “We have only hoisted the Nishan Sahib flag on the Red Fort while exercising our democratic right to protest.”