Delhi Riots - "Killed 2 Muslims, Threw Them in Drain": Riot-Accused on WhatsApp

[Abdullah719]

“Tumhare bhai ne abhi 9 baje k karib b. vihar me 2 mulla mare hai...aur nale me fenke hai...apni team ke sath...tumhe pata hai na ki tumhara bhai sabse aage rahta hai aise kamo me.”

(I just killed two Muslims at around 9 pm in B Vihar...and threw them in the drain...with my team...you know that I am always at the forefront in such acts).

This message was sent at 11.49 PM on 26 February by Ganga Vihar resident Lokesh Solanki alias Rajput on a WhatsApp group called “Kattar Hindut Ekta”. This was in the middle of the Northeast Delhi riots.

At least nine people, most of them members of this WhatsApp group, have now been arrested by the Delhi Police for killing Muslims in Bhagirathi Vihar that falls under Gokulpuri Police Station.

Delhi Police recently filed three charge sheets – FIR numbers 102/20, 103/20 and 104/20 – in connection with three of these murders and it contains transcripts of a few WhatsApp conversations in the Kattar Hindut Ekta group. The police is considering the chats as “extra judicial confessions”, according to the charge sheet.

WhatsApp Chat

In the charge sheets, the police has said that the WhatsApp group was formed at “12.49 hours 25 February” – the second day of the violence. It comprised of 125 members, 47 of whom quit by 8 March.

Here’s an excerpt of a conversation in the WhatsApp group from 26 February. as shared in the charge sheets:

9:45 AM - Vinay alias Binni: sare taiyaar rho (Everyone be ready)

8:29 PM - Binni: Bhai taiyaar rho kaam start hone vala hai (Brother, be ready, the work is about to start)

8:29 PM - Binni: taiyaar rhosare (be ready, everyone)

8:30 PM - Binni: puliya se pipeline ki trf aarge hai suer (The pigs have come from the bridge towards the pipeline)

8:44 PM - +91 9********7: Aane du in mullo ka suar bna denge (Let them come, we’ll make pigs out of these Muslims)

10:22 PM - +91 7********4: Bhaio ye danga q ho raha h nale par abhi jo hua tha Jhoripur nale par (Why did the riot take place right now, the one near Johripur drain?)

10:24 PM - Vipin: Dikkat lag rhi he 6 no me sab ready rhena (There seems to be some trouble at 6 number, be ready)

11:39 PM - Lokesh: Bhai mai Ganga Vihar se Lokesh Solanki hu, agr kisi ko koi problem ho or wha log kam pde to bta dena mai apni puri Ganga Vihar ki team k saath aayunga sara saaman hai humare pass goli bandook sab kuch (Brother, I’m Lokesh from Ganga Vihar. If there’s any problem or if there’s anything you need then let me know, I’ll come with my entire Ganga Vihar team. We have all the stuff – bullets, guns, everything).

11:40 PM - Lokesh: Bhai pura support hai abhi Hindu bhaiyo ko (Brother, there is full support for Hindu brothers)

11:40 PM - Lokesh: Bilkul bhai Ganga Vihar Gokulpuri Johripur sb sath hai tumhare (Absolutely brother, Ganga Vihar, Gokulpuri, Johripur are all with you)

11:41 PM - +91 97*******6: 15 k dane h kya kisi bhai k pass (Does any brother have bullets for .315 pistol?)

11:41 PM - +91 95*******6: Monty Nagar.vcf

11:41 PM - +91 95*******6: Bahi ad kro bhai ktr hindu h yeh (Add him, he is a Hindu fanatic)

11:41 PM - Lokesh: Pistol hai

11:42 PM - Lokesh: Humare pass (We have)

11:42 PM - +91 97*******6: Faltu h kya (Do you have some spare?)

11:42 PM - +91 97*******6: Bhai goli h kya 315 ki (Do you have bullets for .315 pistol?)

11:44 PM Lokesh:

Tumhare Bhai ne abhi 9 bje k krib b. vihar m 2 mulla mare hai. Or nale m feka hai.
Lokesh, Delhi riots accused as quoted in Charge Sheet 102/20
(Your brother has just killed 2 Muslims at around 9 PM in Bhagirathi Vihar and threw them in the drain)

11:44 PM - +91 9********7: Bilkul Lokesh bhai (Absolutely Lokesh Bhai)

11:44 PM - Lokesh: Apni team k sath (With my team)

11:44 PM - +91 7********4: Haa bhai (Yes brother)

11:45 PM - +91 9********7: Ha (Yes)

11:45 PM - +91 7********4: Rajput bhai Bhagirath Vihar me bande bhej do (Rajput Bhai, send men to Bhagirathi Vihar)

11:45 PM - Lokesh: Bhai abhi thodi aarhe hai hum sab raily lekr (We are coming there soon with a rally)

11:45 PM - Lokesh: B.vihar m (to Bhagirathi Vihar)

11:45 PM - +91 97*******6: Koi dikkt na h Bhaiyo (no problem, brothers)

11:49 PM - Lokesh: Vinay tumhe pta hai na tumhara Bhai sbse aage rhta hai aise kamo m (Vinay, you know that your brother is at the forefront in such matters)

The Murders

According to the charge sheet, nine Muslims are said to have been killed in Bhagirathi Vihar on 25 and 26 February. Here’s the sequence given by the police:

25 February

4-4.30 PM: Mursalin’s scooter was set on fire; he was killed and thrown in Bhagirathi Vihar Nala in Johripur bridge.
7 to 7.30 PM: Aas Mohammad was killed by the rioters and thrown in the Bhagirathi Vihar Nala. He was coming on foot from Loni, Ghaziabad.
7.30 to 8 PM: Rioters cut the electricity supply and in the dark, they attacked the house of Musharraf. They grabbed him and dragged him out into the street, where they beat him to death and threw him in the open drain.
9.30 PM: Aamin was killed by the rioters and thrown in the drain, near C Block Bhagirathi Vihar. He was coming on foot from Brijpuri bridge.

26 February

10.30 AM: Bhure Ali alias Salman was killed by the rioters and thrown in the drain near C-Block Bhagirathi Vihar while he was coming from Brijpuri bridge on foot.
Around 9.15 PM: Hamza was killed by rioters while he was coming from Mustafabad to Bhagirathi Vihar. He was killed and his body thrown in the drain near E Block Bhagirathi Vihar.
Around 9.30 PM: Akil Ahmed killed by rioters while coming on foot from Loni, Ghaziabad.
Around 9.40 PM: Hashim Ali and his elder brother Aamir Khan killed by rioters..

Victims Forced to Chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ Many Times

The charge sheets filed recently are regarding FIR 102/20 that deals with the killing of Hamza, FIR 103/20 with Aamin’s murder and FIR 104/20 with the murder of Bhure Ali alias Salman.

The nine people arrested so far are: Lokesh Solanki, Pankaj Sharma, Ankit Chaudhary alias Fauzi, Prince, Jatin Sharma alias Rohit, Himanshu Thakur, Vivek Panchal alias Nandu, Rishabh Chaudhary alias Tapas, and Sumit Chaudhary alias Badshah.

The charge sheets say that the accused intercepted the victims at certain fixed spots, identified them as Muslims, killed them and threw their bodies in the drain.

“Their modus operandi was: they used to catch the people and ascertain their religion by asking name, address and by their document ie Identity Card,” the charge sheets say.

The police also say that victims were forced to chant “Jai Shri Ram” several times.

“They (the accused) were forcing them to call ‘Jai Shri Ram’ many times.”
Delhi Riots charge sheet 103/40

“The person who was not calling ‘Jai Shri Ram’ and had a Muslim identity were bluntly attacked and thrown into the Main Ganda Nala, Bhagirathi Vihar,” the charge sheet adds.

Unanswered Questions

The police claims that the ‘Kattar Hindut Ekta’ WhatsApp group was formed only on “25 February at 12.49 hours” and the idea was to “take revenge on Muslims”, indicating that this was a reaction and not pre-planned. However, Lokesh’s comments that they have “bullets, guns, all the stuff” indicates that the preparations were made in advance.

Several numbers in the WhatsApp chat cited such as 9********7, 95*******6, 97*******6 and 7********4 have not been identified or named in the three charge sheets. This, despite the fact that they were active participants in the Kattar Hindut Ekta group and one of them was even requesting for bullets. The Quint reached out to one of them, who said that the police hasn’t even called him for questioning so far.

Nisar Ahmed, one of the eyewitnesses cited in the three charge sheets, had filed a detailed complaint at Gokulpuri police station regarding the violence at Bhagirathi Vihar. However, many of the names in his complaint don’t figure in the three charge sheets. The most significant omission is that of BJP councillor Kanhaiya Lal, Some names from Ahmed’s complaint find mention in the charge sheet, but not BJP’s Kanhaiya Lal.

https://www.thequint.com/news/polit...ttar-hindu-whatsapp-group-chargesheet-muslims

 

[Abdullah719]

 

[Syed1]

Thank you MA Jinnah

 

[Bhaag Viru Bhaag]

Sab jhooth hai. Ek saazish hai.

 

[Pakpak]

Thank you MA Jinnah

100%.

There are 3-4 countries with a massive Muslim minority population in Burma, India, China and Israel.

In all 4 they are killed like animals, so for the those nutters who didn't want partition....thank you Jinnah

 

[Syed1]

Sab jhooth hai. Ek saazish hai.

'Saajish' likho warna Pakistan bhej dien gaye

 

[Syed1]

100%.

There are 3-4 countries with a massive Muslim minority population in Burma, India, China and Israel.

In all 4 they are killed like animals, so for the those nutters who didn't want partition....thank you Jinnah

We have a few of those on this forum as well

 

[Bhaag Viru Bhaag]

'Saajish' likho warna Pakistan bhej dien gaye

Lol good one.

 

[Bhaag Viru Bhaag]

 

[Abdullah719]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The messages included, “Bhai taiyaar raho, kaam start hone vala hai (brother stay prepared, work is about to start)” and even direct calls for violence against Muslims – “Aane du in mullo ka suar bana denge” (Let them come, we will make them pigs).<a href="https://t.co/Z9K0lXLzUd">https://t.co/Z9K0lXLzUd</a></p>— The Wire (@thewire_in) <a href="https://twitter.com/thewire_in/status/1279078091600494592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 3, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[BreadPakoda]

Chilling. Seems like straight from Aurangzeb era. Convert or perish.

Hindutva or whatever this radical form of Hinduism is has exposed the venom that was pent up in many Hindus for Muslims and other minorities.

I hope more and more moderate Hindus speak out against this and chose a different leadership to represent them.

 

[Keralaboy]

So disgusting and sad. If we don’t raise our voices against these acts INdia will surely end up being another Syria where I see a civil war breaking out. We need to speak up by ensuring that Bjp is not elected next election year, but sadly enough I don’t think there is an opposition strong enough to contend against them.

 

[Abdullah719]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">“Inke Masjid me aag laga di hai (We burnt their mosques),” <br><br>“Haan bhai shi h rnki ma chodni h ab (Yes, brother, very good, now we have to rape their mothers).”<br><br>A WhatsApp group mobilising violence in the Delhi Riots is now part of the chargesheet. <a href="https://t.co/d26a8jbrcZ">https://t.co/d26a8jbrcZ</a></p>— The Wire (@thewire_in) <a href="https://twitter.com/thewire_in/status/1280055553494970368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 6, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Messages read: “Masjidon ki maa chodo,” (F**k Mosques), “Jo bahar baithi thi…mullani unhe chodo <br><br>(The Mullanis [slur used for Muslim women] sitting outside the mosque…rape them).”<a href="https://t.co/d26a8jbrcZ">https://t.co/d26a8jbrcZ</a></p>— The Wire (@thewire_in) <a href="https://twitter.com/thewire_in/status/1280056602666496000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 6, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[BreadPakoda]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">“Inke Masjid me aag laga di hai (We burnt their mosques),” <br><br>“Haan bhai shi h rnki ma chodni h ab (Yes, brother, very good, now we have to rape their mothers).”<br><br>A WhatsApp group mobilising violence in the Delhi Riots is now part of the chargesheet. <a href="https://t.co/d26a8jbrcZ">https://t.co/d26a8jbrcZ</a></p>— The Wire (@thewire_in) <a href="https://twitter.com/thewire_in/status/1280055553494970368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 6, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Messages read: “Masjidon ki maa chodo,” (F**k Mosques), “Jo bahar baithi thi…mullani unhe chodo <br><br>(The Mullanis [slur used for Muslim women] sitting outside the mosque…rape them).”<a href="https://t.co/d26a8jbrcZ">https://t.co/d26a8jbrcZ</a></p>— The Wire (@thewire_in) <a href="https://twitter.com/thewire_in/status/1280056602666496000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 6, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

You saw these same folks shed fake tears for Muslim women when triple talaq was abolished. They hailed the act by Sanghi in Chief supposedly to uplift Muslim women. In reality they are filled with hate and should be locked up in a jail. Yet they prosper in today’s India.

 

[cric_man]

Chilling. Seems like straight from Aurangzeb era. Convert or perish.

Hindutva or whatever this radical form of Hinduism is has exposed the venom that was pent up in many Hindus for Muslims and other minorities.

I hope more and more moderate Hindus speak out against this and chose a different leadership to represent them.

Nice to bring a reference from a Muslim ruler from 400+ years ago. It almost seems at some level you want to mitigate the current act of these RSS by referencing Aurangzeb.

 

[CricketCartoons]

Looks like the police is filing chargesheet against hindu killers just to look balanced and neutral.

 

[Abdullah719]

Burkhas, All 'Markers of Muslimness' Targeted, Report Details Women's Plight in Delhi Riots

New Delhi: A fact-finding report released by the Delhi Minorities Commission on the violence unleashed in North-East Delhi in February 2020 has shed light on the collusion between state and non-state actors in a planned and targeted attack on members of the Muslim community.

It also brought out the deliberate inaction by police officials, and the incitement of violence by members of the BJP.

A number of BJP ministers used misogynist and communal slurs to refer to the anti-CAA protests led by Muslim women since December 2019. At a rally in Uttar Pradesh, chief minister Yogi Adityanath said, “Men are sleeping under quilts; women, kids are pushed forward to protest against CAA”. The statement not only made it evident that he did not believe in women’s constitutional right to protest but was also a reflection of the perceived masculinity of Muslim men, wherein they are considered to be ‘less manly’.

Historically, during any episodes of communal violence, women’s bodies are used to take revenge against a community. In a Brahmanical society, where women’s bodies are viewed as sites of ‘pride’ and ‘honour’, time and again women have been subjected to sexual assault as a means for the dominant communities to exercise their power and control.

The episode of violence unleashed in North-East Delhi reveals yet again a similar exertion of power with impunity. A similar pattern of violence had emerged in Gujarat in 2002, and Muzaffarnagar in 2013.

In North East Delhi, Muslim women lost their social and financial security, their houses were looted and burned and their jewellery, documents, money, amongst other valuables, were taken by the assailants.

Attack by mobs

The report said, “Any markers of ‘muslimness’ were attacked by the mob.”

Women were not being attacked simply because of their sex, but more specifically for their Muslim identity. A woman recounted, “So many sisters told me even when they were running, their burkhas were taken off, their hijabs were pulled off. Me, my children and many other people hid on my terrace.”

Several testimonies by women revealed that Hindutva Mobs, armed with weapons, hurled misogynist and communal slurs at them. Women narrated that they were called, “Motherf****r’, ‘Sisterf****r” by the mob. Another woman said, “They had lathis, swords, they kept chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’ and “Mullon ko Maaron (Kill the Muslims!).”

The testimonies in the report also narrate how the mob threatened women by referring to slogans of azaadi (freedom) as a metaphor for sexual assault; “Do you want ‘Azaadi’? Come, we will give you azaadi!” the mob said whilst attacking women.

In Shiv Vihar, when women stepped out to protect their husbands and sons, they were physically assaulted and sexually harassed by the mob.

The report further said that the mob threw acid on women and children. Several women also said that Muslims were constantly referred to as ‘terrorists’, ‘anti-national’ and ‘foreigners’ by the mob.

“This language to define the Muslims as a community, has been regularly used by mainstream media, and has now turned into ‘common knowledge’ about the community. The same narrative was also employed by the mob,” the report said.

Role of police

Women protesters from the Chand Bagh sit-in protest site, claimed that they had been beaten up by male police officials. The police did not help or support them when the mobs were attacking people in the area.

Several women suffered grievous injuries. A pregnant woman received 35 stitches after being hit by the police at the Chand Bagh sit-in protest site. “I am pregnant, the tear gas broke right in front of me, and then I noticed men chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’, ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ appear in a crowd. The police hit me, and there were some men in ‘military uniform’ also who were beating us with sticks. One policeman picked up a stone and hit me on my head, that is when I fainted. They thought I was dead, so they left me. Somehow I reached home, my head was bleeding- the police did not even allow an ambulance to come into the lane, with a lot of difficulty we reached Al-Hind Hospital where I got 35 stitches on my head. I felt so traumatized, their words kept going on in my head, ‘Hindustan Humara hai, ek bhi musalman nahi rahega yahan‘ (India is ours, not even one muslim will stay here!),” she said.

Another woman spoke about the nature of violence unleashed by the mob and how police officials were complicit in the violence. “I woke up to ‘Mullon ko maaron (Kill the Muslims!)’ and ‘Hum Denge Azaadi’ chants…In front of me, they threw acid on a young girl’s face. We tried to run as far we could, and tried to call the police multiple times, initially they did not pick up.. when they finally did, they said, ‘This is not an issue we are handling. You deal with it yourself’,” she said.

A woman, who witnessed the police dragging a minor girl, was hit on the head when she tried to protect the girl. When she regained consciousness, she saw that there were many injured women around her. “…It was then that the Police pulled their pants down and pointed their genitals towards the women stating that they wanted ‘freedom’ and they were there to give them ‘freedom’,” she said.

Psychological trauma

The fact-finding team recorded several accounts of women who had been hiding and were terrified for hours during and in the aftermath of the violence. The physical attacks, which went on for days, only amplified the feeling of being looked at as an ‘outsider’ in one’s own country, and the trauma one carries with it.

The women also spoke at length about not finding the words to explain to their children, the extent of violence and destruction that had shaken their lives, and why their books and toys were being burned.

In the Khajuri Khas area, a woman said, “I assumed I would be safe on the terrace with my children, but at a point, it became impossible for me to safeguard my children and all my perceptions were meant to be proved wrong that day. In order to save my children from stone pelting, I had to throw them from the top of a three-storey building.” She said that the spectre of hatred and the fear of being killed was still prevalent in the area.

The unabated attacks on women have continued even through the national lockdown, as the state has continued to criminalise women protesters, many of whom have been booked under the draconian UAPA.

The findings of the report have stressed on the immediate need to deal specifically with the impact of violence on women and have called for taking necessary measures to support women and child victims, including filing complaints of sexual violence against perpetrators.

https://thewire.in/rights/delh-riots-delhi-minorities-commission-report