Delhi Police wants you to believe that the February violence was the outcome of a sinister conspiracy by Citizenship Act protestors.

But where is the evidence?

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This week, Delhi Police filed an affidavit in court alleging CAA protestors were willing to “execute a secessionist movement in the country by propagating an armed rebellion against the lawfully constituted government of the day”.

This, after it said in many chargesheets that the worst riots in 4 decades in the national capital were "a consequence of a deep-rooted conspiracy which was hatched under the garb of democratically opposing the Citizenship Act.”

Many have been arrested for this purported conspiracy. Six of them are students.

Raising the spectre of an even wider investigation is the sprinkling of names in the chargesheets and affidavit: Harsh Mander, Yogendra Yadav, Anjali Bhardwaj, among others.

But where is the evidence?

The police are yet to file a chargesheet in the main conspiracy case, which now includes charges under UAPA.

But @VijaytaL spent days examining the chargesheets filed in three related cases and found...

Delhi Police are relying on purported confession statements of the accused to establish a conspiracy.

None of these statements have been recorded in the presence of a magistrate.

Worse, many statements are identical.

Word-by-word. Line-by-line. https://scroll.in/article/967881/delhi-polices-grand-riots-conspiracy-where-is-the-evidence

“If multiple accused have resorted to the same identical words in almost identically worded disclosure statements, then it is evident that these statements are fabricated and are hopelessly inauthentic,” said a criminal lawyer.

Read @VijaytaL's report.

https://scroll.in/article/967881/delhi-polices-grand-riots-conspiracy-where-is-the-evidence