New Delhi Apr 22 PTI Delhi Police Commissioner Rakesh Asthana has written to the Enforcement Directorate to investigate the money laundering charges against the prime accused in the Jahangirpuri violence case a senior officer said on FridayAnsar 35 a resident of B-Block of Jahangirpuri is alleged to be the main conspirator behind the violence that took place on April 16 during a procession on the occasion of Hanuman Jayanti police saidA letter has been written to the director of the Enforcement Directorate to probe Ansar under PMLA Prevention of Money Laundering Act charges the senior police officer told PTIAsthana has written to Director Enforcement Directorate ED Sanjay Kumar MishraDuring preliminary investigation it has emerged that Ansar has money in many of bank accounts and is also in possession of several properties which allegedly were purchased through gambling money police saidWe have requested the agency concerned ED to probe the money laundering angle in the case of Ansar and analyse his bank account details and all the properties in possession of him to ascertain if this money was being funded by someone for a purpose or if he earned this money through illegal means be it through gambling so that we can establish links the officer said confirming the developmentThe ED is empowered to arrest a person and attach his or her assets during the course of a money laundering investigationAccording to police Ansar was found to be previously involved in two cases of assault and was also arrested repeatedly under preventive sections and booked five times under the Gambling Act and the Arms ActIn the Jahangirpuri violence incident 25 people have been arrested while two juveniles have been apprehended so far police saidAccording to the Delhi Police it has slapped the stringent National Security Act on five persons arrested in connection with the April 16 Jahangirpuri violence even as the BJP and the AAP accused each other of links with the main conspiratorAmong those booked under the NSA are Ansar the alleged main conspirator behind the violence police said adding further investigation is in progressAnsar allegedly had an argument with participants of the Hanuman Jayanti procession that escalated and led to stone pelting according to the FIRThe Delhi Polices crime branch is probing the case with assistance from the northwest district police and the special cells IFSO Intelligence Fusion Strategic Operation unitAccording to police a crime branch team has been sent to West Bengal where they are questioning the relatives of those who belong to the state and have been arrestedThe team has already questioned family members of one of the arrested accused Md Aslam who had opened fire A bullet hit Sub Inspector Meda Lal who is recovering from the injuryClashes broke out between two communities during the procession on April 16 leaving eight police personnel and a local resident injured According to police there was stone-pelting and arson during the clashes and some vehicles were also torched PTI AMP NIT ANB ANB

New Delhi Apr 18 PTI Delhi BJP leaders on Monday claimed links between Jahangirpuri violence accused Md Ansar and the ruling AAP saying police should probe why masterminds of the incident were found associated with a particular partyIn a letter to AAP supremo and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Delhi BJP spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor asked him to expel Ansar from the partyDelhiites want a reply from the Aam Aadmi Party AAP leadership over the involvement of the youth apparently an AAP worker in the Jahangirpuri riots Earlier too we saw AAP councilor Tahir Hussain as the main accused of 2020 Delhi riots Kapoor said in the letterReacting to the Bharatiya Janata Partys BJP allegations AAP leader and Delhi minister Satyendar Jain told reporters I think he Ansar must be linked to the BJP since the saffron party knows the inside story Clashes broke out between two communities during a Hanuman Jayanti procession in northwest Delhis Jahangirpuri on Saturday in which eight police personnel and a local were injuredThe Delhi Police has so far held 22 people and apprehended two juveniles in connection with the incident According to them Md Ansar and Md Aslam were the main conspirators who got to know about the Shobha Yatra on April 15 and hatched up a conspiracy to create troubleManoj Tiwari BJP MP from northeast Delhi that was rocked by communal violence in 2020 said The mastermind of the attack in Jahangirpuri -- Md Ansar -- has been found to be a worker of AAP There are evidences of this in the form of photographs Tahir Hussain who was the mastermind of the Delhi riots in 2020 was also an AAP councilor Is AAP running a riots factory He reiterated that illegal immigrants living in the city were a big challenge for police and law and orderAAP has fond ties with them because they work for it Their Aadhaar and voter cards are prepared easily The police and intelligence agencies should probe as to why the masterminds of incidents of riots are found to be associated with the AAP Tiwari allegedDelhi BJP president Adesh Gupta had on Sunday alleged that Ansar was an AAP activist and had relations with party MLAs He had also claimed that the violence in Jahangirpuri was the result of the AAP government aiding illegal stay of Rohingya and Bangladeshi immigrantsMeanwhile Satyendar Jain said the law and order situation is not good in Delhi and answers in this regard should be sought from Union Home Minister Amit Shah under whom the city police functionsAsk the home minister under whom the Delhi police comes why is he not improving the law and order situation he told reportersEarlier Delhi Police Commissioner Rakesh Asthana in a press briefing said a thorough probe was undertaken in the violence in Jahangirpuri and no one irrespective of their class creed and religion would be spared if found involved in it PTI VIT SRY

New Delhi Apr 18 PTI A 36-year-old man was on Monday arrested for allegedly supplying bottles which were used for pelting during the clash in Northwest Delhis Jahangirpuri on the occasion of Hanuman Jayanti police said The accused Sheikh Hameed is a scrap dealer and a resident of Jahangirpuri they saidWith the latest arrest the Delhi Police has so far held 22 people and apprehended two juveniles in connection with the incident that took place on SaturdayDuring investigation one more accused Sheikh Hameed was arrested in connection with the case During the interrogation he told police that he had supplied bottles which were used for pelting during the clashes Usha Rangnani Deputy Commissioner of Police Northwest saidThe total number of arrests made so far in connection with the case also includes that of Md Aslam who had fired a bullet that hit a sub inspector of the Delhi Police The pistol used by the accused during the commission of crime was seized from his possession Besides him Ansar 35 alleged to be the main conspirator behind the violence was also arrested according to the policePolice said there was stone-pelting and arson during the clashes between two communities that left eight police personnel and a local injured Some vehicles were also torchedAn FIR was registered on Saturday under Indian Penal Code sections including 307 attempt to murder 120 B criminal conspiracy and 147 rioting and provisions of the Arms Act in connection with the incidentThe case has been transferred to Crime Branch while the northwest district police and the Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations IFSCO of the Special Cell will also help them in probing the case police saidPTI AMP SRY