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Delhi: No rioter should be spared irrespective of political affiliation: Kejriwal as AAP councillor under scanner

| @indiablooms | Feb 27, 2020, at 05:17 pm

New Delhi/IBNS: As Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) councilor Md. Tahir Hussain has come under the scanner over the Delhi violence, which has claimed 37 lives and left over 200 injured, party supremo and Delhi Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal, on Thursday said no rioter should be spared irrespective of his political affiliation.

Addressing a press in the national capital, Kejriwal said, "No rioter should be spared irrespective of his political affiliation. He can belong to BJP or Congress or AAP but must be put to jail."

"If he belongs to the AAP, he must be doubly punished," the Chief Minister added.

After recovering a large number of petrol bombs, bricks and stones from the rooftop of a house which belongs to Hussain on Thursday morning, the Delhi Police have started probe into his role in the deadly violence in northeast Delhi, officials said. 

Earlier on Wednesday, kins of young Intelligence Bureau (IB) official Ankit Sharma, whose body was reportedly found in a drain in Chand Bagh, alleged that the 26-year-old IB officer was kidnapped and murdered by Tahir Hussain and his followers while he was returning home from office.

Md. Tahir Hussain, an AAP councilor from Ward no. 59 (Nehru Vihar) of East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC), has also been blamed for inciting his community's people during the communal violence over Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protest and leading an attack from his house's rooftop.

The AAP councilor, however, denied all allegations against him and claimed his house as well as rooftop were 'hijacked' by rioters.

"I was forced out of my home and my rooftop was taken over by miscreants who pelted stones and petrol bombs," Hussain told IBNS.

"I wasn't involve in the violence and I had called the police after miscreants entered my house, but, police arrived after several hours," he added. "All these allegations against me are false."

Meanwhile, multiple video clips, authenticity of which have not been examined by IBNS independently, have gone viral on social media platforms which show a man resembling to Tahir Hussain leading an attack from a house's rooftop during the Delhi violence.

Delhi Police, however, said that they are currently investigating the matter.

Meanwhile, Kejriwal has announced Rs. 10 lakh as compensation to the kins of the deceased.

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The Delhi government will give Rs. 2 lakh to the injured.

"Riot victims will get free treatment even in Private Hospitals under Farishtey Dilli Ke scheme. Delhi Govt wil provide all medical assistance to the victims," said the Chief Minister.

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