23 rioters sent to police custody till Aug 19

Defence advocate Wahab Khan,however,argued that none of the organisers of the protest had been arrested by the police. He alleged that those arrested were innocent and had come to the area on Saturday evening to pick up their vehicles parked there.

According to the police,two self-loading rifles (SLRs) and 160 rounds of 7.65 mm were stolen during the riot along with a service revolver and 10 nine mm rounds. While the police found the SLRs abandoned near Azad Maidan,the revolver is still missing.

JCP (Crime) Himanshu Roy said,The organisers of the rally have been named in the FIR. There were 17 people who had shared the stage of whom five delivered speeches. We have recordings of the speeches and are studying them to ascertain if any provocative or inflammatory statements were made.