Key Accused In Jahangirpuri Violence Arrested From West Bengal: Report

“He was very actively involved in the communal riots and played a major role,” the news agency reported one of the sources as saying.

Police personnel deployed at Jahangirpuri on April 22 in New Delhi (Image Source: Getty Images)

New Delhi: The Delhi Police Crime Branch on Thursday arrested one of the most wanted accused of the communal riots in the national capital’s Jahangirpuri area from West Bengal, PTI reported sources as saying.

Sources added that the accused has been identified as Farid alias Neetu.

“He was very actively involved in the communal riots and played a major role,” the news agency reported one of the sources as saying.

“Our several teams who have been deployed in West Bengal arrested him on Thursday from his aunt's house in Tamluk village. He is being brought to New Delhi via flight today,” the source added.

Stating that the accused had fled from the spot after the riots, sources said that he had been changing his locations since then and moving across West Bengal.

Sources further said that the accused has six cases, including that of robbery, snatching, burglary and under the Arms Act, registered against him since 2010, adding he is a history-sheeter in the Jahangirpuri area.

Earlier on April 16, clashes broke out between two communities during a Hanuman Jayanti procession in Delhi’s Jahangirpuri.

At least eight police personnel and a local resident were among those injured.

There was stone pelting and arson, as per the police, during the clashes and some vehicles were also torched.

Delhi Police Commissioner Rakesh Asthana had days after the violence written to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to probe the money laundering charges against the prime accused in the case.

The police have also slapped the stern National Security Act against five of the accused in this case.