LUCKNOW The police are gathering proof to determine the function of Dubai-based gangster Shariq Satha as the primary conspirator in inciting violence through the court docket ordered survey of Shahi Jama Masjid in Sambhal on November 24, 2024, stated officers.
Twelve instances associated to the November violence have been registered at three police stations, together with seven at Sambhal police station, 4 at Nakasha police station of Sambhal district and one at Pakbada police station of Moradabad. (Pic for illustration)
“After the arrest of his key aide Ghulam on February 20, we are getting evidence about Shariq Satha’s involvement in the violence. Besides information from Ghulam that he supplied firearms and ammunition to other gang members to kill people during the protest, the police have retrieved multiple digital evidences from Satha’s phone,” stated ASP, North (Sambhal) Shirish Chandra. He stated Satha’s spouse had additionally been quizzed relating to his whereabouts.
Throughout interrogation, Ghulam revealed that Satha interacted with him a number of occasions between November 20 and 23 and instructed him to rearrange arms/ammunition and provide them to different gang members to kill protesting individuals in order that the violence spreads to different components of Sambhal and whole west area. Ghulam, together with Shariq Satha, is more likely to be accused in the primary case associated to bigger conspiracy behind Sambhal violence, stated one other police official.
He stated two different members of Satha’s gang, Mullah Afroz and Mohd Waris, have been arrested on January 17 and 25, respectively in reference to the murders of 4 individuals, who have been killed after struggling bullet wounds through the violence, on January 17 and 25.
As per the police, Shariq Satha is a resident of Sambhal’s Deepa Sarai space and stated to be working his prison community dealing in weapons in addition to supplying stolen four-wheelers from Delhi and the close by area to N-E states. He earlier had political patronage following which he might simply function from Sambhal, however fled to Dubai in 2020 after police strictness since March 2017.
Twelve instances associated to the November violence have been registered at three police stations, together with seven at Sambhal police station, 4 at Nakasha police station of Sambhal district and one at Pakbada police station of Moradabad. All these instances are being investigated by the SIT. Cost sheets have been filed in six instances final week through which 215 individuals have been accused whereas investigation is underway within the remaining six instances together with the primary case of violence conspiracy.
On November 19, the court docket of civil decide (senior division), Sambhal, ordered a survey of the Shahi Jama Masjid following a petition by Supreme Court docket lawyer Vishnu Shankar Jain. The court docket additionally appointed Ramesh Raghav because the advocate commissioner to hold out the survey. The advocate commissioner carried out an preliminary survey of the mosque and a second spherical of the survey started on November 24, sparking protests and violence.