Sambhal. Who was the real mastermind behind the violence that erupted in Sambhal over Jama Masjid vs Harihar Mandir? Police is searching for him, but at the time when arson, stone pelting and firing took place, the miscreants had plans to do something big with dangerous preparations and rumours.
They had planned to declare a fight to the finish with the police and drive them away, but the police, sensing the circumstances, brought the situation under control. All this is being revealed in the police investigation and interrogation of the arrested accused.
At present, the police have identified more than 700 miscreants so far, in which the police have prepared posters of about 150 people on Thursday, which are being made public.
Intentions also revealed from Sameer’s mobile
In fact, Sambhal police has so far arrested 31 people out of the miscreants who did arson, stone pelting and firing in the violence. On the first day, a total of 21 people were arrested, after which seven others have also been arrested.
The intentions behind the scenes are also being revealed in the interrogation of the arrested miscreants. Call recordings of conversations with some different people have been recovered from the mobiles recovered from these people, in which people are talking about calling other people to the scene with full preparation along with the goods, in which indications were being given to bring weapons along.
In the call recordings recovered from the mobile of Sameer arrested by the police, Sameer talks to two people.
Waris- Where are you brother, tell me…
Sameer (caller)- Pack the goods and bring them…
Waris- Where are you…
Sameer- A little over the Jama Masjid…
Waris- Where…
Sameer- Where is Zubair Bhai’s house.
Talking to another person named Subhan-
Sameer- Subhan bhai.. it is like this, bring as many people as you can from your locality, to Jama Masjid… the matter has worsened again.. the public is the public.
Claim of martyrdom of mosque in rumour
It is clear from the recording that due to such rumours, crowd started gathering from nearby localities as well as villages near Sambhal city. The main thing in it is that the mosque was being claimed to be martyred in the rumour.
However, the police registered separate cases against 3750 unknown people along with 37 named people and the Superintendent of Police has engaged SOG and surveillance to search for the unknown people. The team is identifying the miscreants in the CCTV footage, the picture in front of them is being made in the form of posters and shared with the higher officials.
Along with this, cross-questioning is also being done during interrogation of those who were taken into custody. The secret team is also trying to find out the names and identities of such people. On Wednesday, the police released posters of such miscreants, whose number was said to be around 65. On the second day, Thursday, the police prepared posters of around 150 people, who are being made public for identification.