Nagpur violence: Police form 18 special teams to nab culprits

Mumbai (Ajoy Mishra): Police have formed 18 special teams to track down and arrest those involved in the violence in Maharashtra’s Nagpur city. As of now, 69 persons have been in connection with the violence which took place here on Monday. Curfew remained imposed in several areas of the city for the third day on Thursday.
The police have so far identified 200 accused and are actively working to identify another 1,000 suspects captured in CCTV footage of the riots, a senior official said. On Monday, five First Information Reports (FIRs) were registered at the Ganeshpeth and Kotwali police stations wherein 200 accused have been named.
Efforts were on to identify the others involved in the violence with the help of the CCTV footage, the official said.
Meanwhile, police have booked Fahim Khan, key accused in the Nagpur violence, and five others on charges of sedition and spreading misinformation on social media. Curfew has been lifted or relaxed in parts of the city three days after the violence. Maulana Shahabuddin Razvi, a Barelvi sect cleric, wrote to Union home minister Amit Shah, seeking a ban on the film ‘Chhava’, alleging it was inciting communal tensions and was directly responsible for the Nagpur violence. Amid demand from right-wing organisations that Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb’s tomb at Khultabad in Maharashtra’s Sambhajinagar district be removed, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has put up tin sheets on two sides of the 18th century structure.