Protest at AI Impact Summit: Here’s what Delhi Police’s SIT, Crime Branch will probe
The SIT led to the arrest of eight people, including Indian Youth Congress president Uday Bhanu Chib.
The three men, who are suspected of being involved in the ‘shirtless’ protest against Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on February 20, were brought to the capital on Thursday morning (Express photo)
With a Special Investigation Team (SIT) — formed by the Delhi Police to investigate the protest at the recently concluded Indian AI Impact Summit— transferring the case to the Inter-State Cell of the Crime Branch, the Delhi Police has intensified its probe to uncover the alleged planning behind printing T-shirts, making posters, collecting umbrellas, and identifying and arresting others involved.
The SIT led to the arrest of eight people, including Indian Youth Congress president Uday Bhanu Chib.
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“The case has been transferred to the Crime Branch because the matter extends to other states as well. Therefore, both teams will coordinate and try to make the case watertight,” an officer said.
The officer also said that so far, the investigation has revealed that the accused had been planning to hold the protest from the first day of the summit. They allegedly waited as there was tight security and barged into the venue on penultimate day, the officer said.
Police suspect that the accused might have created a WhatsApp group, which was deleted after the incident. Investigators found that messages had been deleted from the mobile phones of some of the accused arrested so far.
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The police are trying to retrieve the deleted chats, identify the printing press where the T-shirts and posters were printed, find out where the umbrellas were procured from, and arrest those identified as co-conspirators and executors of the plan. The police found that the accused had planned to enter the summit premises with black umbrellas to lodge their protest earlier, but dropped the plan at the last moment.
Special Commissioner of Police (Crime) Devesh Chandra Srivastava said that on February 20 a premeditated attempt was made to breach the security cordon at the summit. He said several names have surfaced during the investigation, adding that CCTV footage have captured many and information about several who assisted the protesters has emerged.
He further said that Sections 191A (rioting) and 192 (wantonly giving provocation with intent to cause a riot) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita were invoked in the FIR filed in the case and that teams are probing the “deeper conspiracy” behind the protest during the event at Bharat Mandapam.
The three men, who are suspected of being involved in the ‘shirtless’ protest against Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on February 20, were brought to the capital on Thursday morning (Express photo) 
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