Senior Congress leader and former Union Minister Salman Khurshid, his party colleague Udit Raj and Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Brinda Karat have been named in a chargesheet filed by the Delhi Police in connection with the communal violence that broke out in the Capital in February, PTI reported. The police have alleged that these leaders gave provocative speeches during the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act.
The chargesheet, filed on September 17, totalling over 17,000 pages, refers to former Congress Councillor Ishrat Jahan and a protected witness. It claims that they told the police about the alleged speeches in their disclosure statements.
The chargesheet said that the protected witness have stated in the statement recorded, under Section 161 (examination by police) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, that Khurshid, Raj and Karat had visited a…