NEW DELHI: On Holi this year, residents of Harsh Vihar in east Delhi had found parts of a slaughtered cow and a bovine foetus in their locality. The discovery had led to tension in the area. People had held demonstrations to protest against cow slaughter, forcing the police to step in and check passions with the help of elders of the two uneasy religious communities.
Three months later, the Special Cell of Delhi Police arrested a man named Mohammed Imran, who has apparently admitted that he and three others, Parvez, Lukman and Inshallah, hatched a plot to spread hatred among the two communities of the area and create a serious law and order problem in the capital ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.
The Special Cell is interrogating Imran to determine if there was a bigger conspiracy and if more people were involved.
Imran, 29, a resident of Asharfiya Masjid area in Ghaziabad, UP, was arrested from the Loni roundabout on Wazirabad Road on Wednesday morning. A reward of Rs 25,000 had been declared by Delhi Police for his arrest.
P S Kushwaha, DCP (Special Cell), said on Wednesday that a team comprising inspector Ishwar Singh and sub-inspector Aditya were on the trail of the absconding Imran after the arrest of his three associates yielded information about his role in the conspiracy. “The team identified places in Delhi and Uttarakhand where Imran could be hiding,” Kushwaha said. “On Tuesday, we received information that Imran would come from Uttarakhand to Delhi to meet his family members on Wednesday. Accordingly, we made plans to intercept him and nabbed him near the Loni roundabout.”
Kushwaha said, “Pursuing their plan to inflame communal passions in the area, Imran and his associates slaughtered a cow on the morning of March 21 and then mischievously threw the body parts across the locality.”
Imran told the cops that he was in the family business of buying and selling cattle and buffaloes. According to police, Imran had been arrested in 2016 too, when he was allegedly caught injecting cattle with poison. In addition, he had been booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act a few years ago.
In Video:Delhi: Man held for trying to incite tension on Holi
Three months later, the Special Cell of Delhi Police arrested a man named Mohammed Imran, who has apparently admitted that he and three others, Parvez, Lukman and Inshallah, hatched a plot to spread hatred among the two communities of the area and create a serious law and order problem in the capital ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.
The Special Cell is interrogating Imran to determine if there was a bigger conspiracy and if more people were involved.
Imran, 29, a resident of Asharfiya Masjid area in Ghaziabad, UP, was arrested from the Loni roundabout on Wazirabad Road on Wednesday morning. A reward of Rs 25,000 had been declared by Delhi Police for his arrest.
P S Kushwaha, DCP (Special Cell), said on Wednesday that a team comprising inspector Ishwar Singh and sub-inspector Aditya were on the trail of the absconding Imran after the arrest of his three associates yielded information about his role in the conspiracy. “The team identified places in Delhi and Uttarakhand where Imran could be hiding,” Kushwaha said. “On Tuesday, we received information that Imran would come from Uttarakhand to Delhi to meet his family members on Wednesday. Accordingly, we made plans to intercept him and nabbed him near the Loni roundabout.”
Kushwaha said, “Pursuing their plan to inflame communal passions in the area, Imran and his associates slaughtered a cow on the morning of March 21 and then mischievously threw the body parts across the locality.”
Imran told the cops that he was in the family business of buying and selling cattle and buffaloes. According to police, Imran had been arrested in 2016 too, when he was allegedly caught injecting cattle with poison. In addition, he had been booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act a few years ago.
In Video:Delhi: Man held for trying to incite tension on Holi
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