India Today has accessed the FIR filed after the riots in Nagpur on Monday. The report details how a mob armed with weapons attacked police, including women officers.
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00:00India today has access chilling details of the first information report filed after riots
00:08in Nagpur.
00:09We'll get to those details.
00:12Remember what happened in Nagpur when a mob shouted provocative slogans?
00:17When rumors were spread, false rumors saying that, let me read that FIR and I want you
00:26to read it.
00:27I want you to read this with me so that you know.
00:30What is it that the riotous mob was shouting?
00:32We will show the police now.
00:34We will not spare them nor any Hindu.
00:40Despite police warnings and now I'm reading through that FIR.
00:44Despite police warnings, the mob armed itself with dangerous weapons including axes, stones,
00:49sticks and other lethal objects and terrorized the area.
00:54They deliberately tried to create communal tension and disrupt social harmony.
00:58The mob attacked the police with lethal weapons, throwing stones and even petrol bombs at them
01:04with the intention to kill officers on duty.
01:10Police officers were verbally abused with communal slurs.
01:16You are Hindu police officers.
01:18You helped in burning our religious cloth.
01:22That's not all.
01:23When you read that FIR, it then goes on to say, it talks about sexual violence against
01:32lady police personnel who were deployed there.
01:35They were assaulted.
01:37In one instance, the FIR says the mob touched her inappropriately, attempted to strip her
01:45uniform.
01:46Here's a policewoman in uniform.
01:48The mob attempted to strip her uniform and hurled obscene comments.
01:55Other female officers were also subjected to sexual harassment, obscene gestures and
02:01verbal abuse.
02:03This is just one part of the FIR.
02:06And over the course of the next half hour, I'll get you many more details, a detail that
02:10should be an eye opener for those who try to justify riots based on rumors.
02:16I want to bring in Sumi Keval Patel, who joins us from Nagpur, Maharashtra, India, today's
02:21finest team of reporters.
02:23They've been able to piece together what happened and not on the basis of what sources are saying,
02:30but from the first information report filed in the police station.
02:33Sumi, bring us details of investigations so far.
02:37Who is this mastermind who has been arrested?
02:41What more do we know of this shocking, absolutely shocking, molestation of a female police personnel
02:48deployed there?
02:55Yes, absolutely.
02:57This is the most shocking detail now that is coming to the fore.
03:00That was mentioned in the 18-page FIR that has been filed by the Maharashtra police.
03:04And in fact, I would like to circle back to this particular point.
03:08The key conspirator here is Fahim Shamim Khan.
03:11He is understood to be the key conspirator.
03:14He's already behind bars.
03:15And in fact, he's being interrogated by the officials of Maharashtra police.
03:18And in fact, he played a key role in spreading the misinformation like fire in the sensitive
03:24areas.
03:25And he actually was responsible for the assemblage that happened at Ganeshpet, at Ganpatipet
03:30police station, right outside of 50 to 60 men, after which this entire violence took
03:36place in Nagpur.
03:38And in fact, right now, what we also know so far is that women constables, the women
03:42officials who were part of the quick reaction team, as well as the SRPF, along with Maharashtra
03:46police who were deployed in huge numbers to contain the situation, they were also stripped.
03:51They were manhandled and communal slurs were also hurled at them.
03:54But right now, what Maharashtra police is also doing is looking into this angle very
03:58meticulously and they are scourging through various CCTV footages that are available with
04:05them.
04:06And right now they are trying to identify the writers who specifically hurt all these
04:11women officials dignity because now it's time for stern action against these writers, against
04:16the conspirators, because it is going to be a very serious angle to the case because Maharashtra
04:21police is very clear about this very point, that stern action will be taken against those
04:25writers who tried hurting women officials who were officially on duty.
04:30In fact, there were, there were a few writers who tried to strip a women official as well.
04:34And now it is very, very serious what has taken place in the Nagpur violence.
04:38And remember, Nagpur is a place where there always has been a communal harmony, but this
04:43time around, Fahim Shamim Khan, who already has previous cases of inciting violence in
04:50Nagpur, communal violence in Nagpur is again responsible and one of the key conspirator.
04:55And interestingly, he is a politician.
04:56He in fact is part of the minority democratic party.
04:59And in fact, he also contested the 2024 parliamentary election.
05:03He was one of the 24 candidates who had contested the parliamentary elections of 2024 against
05:07Nitin Gadkari, the BJP stalwart.
05:10And it is interesting now, his entire interrogation will take place and the investigation will
05:14be led in a new direction.
05:16No, because we must, we must get to the bottom of this and Sumi keep tracking that story
05:20and stay with me for a moment because for the benefit of viewers who are joining us,
05:24I want our viewers to know what was happening according to the police who were on ground
05:30on the 17th of March.
05:32So the FIR that India today has been able to access, it reveals how the mob, it specifically
05:39went after women personnel who were deployed there, women police personnel who were deployed
05:45there.
05:46A Congress leader, we are told, tried to justify this assault saying police misused their uniform.
05:54The FIR in the Nagpur violence reveals how rioters, they targeted women police personnel
06:00during this violence.
06:02In one instance, they stripped a woman, they tried to strip a woman police constable.
06:08Women officers who were on the spot, repeated obscene gestures were made.
06:15They were subjected to obscene gestures and obscene comments.
06:20Rioters hurled communal slurs at the police, accusing the police of being Hindu.
06:26They made these slurs at those who were there to protect the people who were there saying
06:33they were shouting anti-Hindu slogans.
06:36The FIR then says the rioters tried to kill police.
06:42This is what the FIR says and the FIR has been filed by a police sub-inspector on duty
06:48and not one but two who were on ground.
06:51So rioters, they tried to kill police personnel on duty, molest them, strip them and kill
06:58them.
06:59Congress MP Imran Masood when asked on the molestation of the women police by the rioters
07:06actually sought to justify it.
07:08He said those cops were targeted or verged to that effect because I want you to listen
07:13to him who misused their uniform.
07:16Listen.