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A time aft a court-ordered anti-encroachment thrust triggered clashes and stone-pelting successful cardinal Delhi’s Turkman Gate area, six much arrests person been made successful connection with the violence, which near constabulary unit injured.
The full fig of arrests made successful the substance present stands astatine 11, including the apprehension of a juvenile.
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Those arrested connected Thursday (January 8, 2026) person been identified arsenic Afaan, Adil, Shahnawaz, Hamza, Atharr and Ubed, each are residents of the Turkman Gate area.
"We person arrested six much people. So acold full of 11 people, including 1 juvenile, person been apprehended," Additional Commissioner of Police (Central) Nidhin Valsan told PTI.
He said that capable deployment of constabulary unit and paramilitary forces has been made successful the country to support instrumentality and bid and forestall immoderate untoward incident.
Officers are intimately monitoring the situation, helium added.
An anti-encroachment thrust adjacent the Faiz-e-Elahi mosque successful Delhi's Ramlila Maidan country connected the intervening nighttime of Tuesday (January 6) and Wednesday (January 7) triggered unit arsenic galore radical pelted stones astatine constabulary personnel, injuring 5 of them, including the area's presumption location officer.
Trouble brewed erstwhile a societal media station claimed the mosque, other the Turkman Gate, was being demolished during the anti-encroachment drive, and radical started gathering there, constabulary sources said.
They claimed that 150 to 200 radical were progressive successful the pelting of stones and solid bottles astatine the constabulary and Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) workers.
MCD Deputy Commissioner Kumar Kumar had said astir 36,000 quadrate feet of encroached country was cleared during the drive. A diagnostic centre, a banquet hallway and 2 bound walls were demolished during the thrust that went connected done the night, Kumar had said.
He had besides clarified that the mosque was not damaged successful immoderate way.
