Another arrested for Azad Maidan riots
The crime branch on Monday arrested the 53rd accused in the Azad Maidan riots case from Bihar for vandalising the Amar Jawan Jyot memorial on August 11. Abdul Qadeer Mohammed Yunus Ansari, 19, a resident of Jogeshwari, who had fled to Bihar after the violence, was one of the two persons captured on camera vandalising the memorial with a long rod. The police said he was to flee to Nepal and was arrested in the nick of time.
“Ansari lived with his family in Jogeshwari. His father is a maulvi in a madrassa in Mumbai. He has five brothers — two working as maulvis in Uttar Pradesh, one as a maulvi in Mumbai, one in a mobile repair shop and the youngest in school — and two sisters. After his photographs were published in newspapers, he fled Mumbai and went to live with his relatives in the Sitamadi district in Bihar. He had packed his bags to cross the Indo-Nepal border, before he was arrested by our men on Monday evening,” said Himanshu Roy, joint commissioner of police, crime. According to Mr Roy, the police was close to arresting the second person involved in the desecration of the memorial, but said that the operation failed after news of Ansari’s arrest flashed in the media. Mr Roy said that Ansari had been to a meeting in Jogeshwari before the riots, which was attended by over 200 men. “We will now question him about the organisers of the meeting,” he said.
A senior officer, however, expressed surprise over Ansari’s participation in the violence. “The event was organised by Sunni Bareilvis, while Ansari follows the Deobandi sect. Both the sects have ideological differences and so his involvement comes as a surprise,” said the officer.
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