A senior police officer told The Indian Express that the Crime Branch has questioned over 200 police personnel and scanned a number of documents, including duty charts of the policemen deployed during the riots.
Over four years after the death of 23-year-old Faizan — who was seen in a video clip lying injured on the ground as security personnel purportedly forced him to sing Vande Mataram and the national anthem during the 2020 Northeast Delhi riots — the Delhi Police is learnt to have initiated “departmental inquiries” against two policemen, who have been identified as being present at the spot, for “not helping” in the investigation.
A senior police officer told The Indian Express that the Crime Branch has questioned over 200 police personnel and scanned a number of documents, including duty charts of the policemen deployed during the riots. “During investigations, police identified two policemen who were present at the site. But even after several rounds of questioning, they were not helping the investigating officers in disclosing the identity of the policemen who asked (Faizan) to sing Vande Mataram and the national anthem,” the officer said.
“The voice samples of these two policemen were taken and sent for forensic analysis to see if they matched with the voice in the video clip. However, the report suggests the voice samples don’t match, as the voice quality was not clear. The voice samples have been sent to another laboratory in Gujarat for forensic examination,” the officer said. The report from the Gujarat lab is still awaited.
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