Delhi Police chief SN Shrivastava, responding to the first letter by Mr. Ribeiro, had said that the investigation into the communal clashes was being guided by facts and was fair.
Distinguished former police officer Julio Ribeiro, on the very day Delhi Police filed an exhaustive chargesheet naming 15 people linked to only one side involved in February’s riots, wrote a second letter to the city’s commissioner. Ribeiro questioned the “the license given to three BJP stalwarts” accused of giving provocative speeches before the violence.
Delhi Police chief SN Shrivastava, responding to the first letter by Mr. Ribeiro, had said that the investigation into the communal clashes, that left 53 dead, at least 200 injured and property worth crores damaged, was being guided by facts and was fair.
“There are doubts in my original open letter which you have not addressed. I realise that it is difficult, indeed impossible, to justify the licence given to the three BJP stalwarts I named – licence to rant, rave and threaten those who are peacefully protesting perceived wrongs. If the speakers were Muslims or Leftists the police would have surely taken them in for sedition!” Ribeiro, a Padma Bhushan awardee, said in his second letter.
The former IPS officer, who’s also a recipient of the President’s Police medal and led police forces in Mumbai, Gujarat and Punjab as well as the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), had earlier named BJP leaders Kapil Mishra, Anurag Thakur and Parvesh Verma in his first letter, asking why they haven’t not been questioned yet.
The celebrated police officer, saying he noted in the Delhi Police commissioner’s e-mail that he doubted Mr Ribeiro’s patriotism, requested Mr Shrivastava to file chargesheets in all 753 cases registered over the riots.
The second letter by Ribeiro came after Delhi Police posted on Twitter the e-mail that Mr Shrivastava had sent him.
Police fraternity holds Mr Julio Rebeiro in high esteem. He has raised doubts about the fairness in investigation of North East Delhi riots. An email reply has been sent to clear his doubts.The email reply is attached @CPDelhi @LtGovDelhi @HMOIndia pic.twitter.com/ZNVaFYwSXG
— #DilKiPolice Delhi Police (@DelhiPolice) September 15, 2020
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