Two more arrested in Turkman Gate violence case in Delhi

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A presumption    of the Faiz-e-Elahi Masjid, Turkman Gate, adjacent   Ramlila Maidan connected  Saturday, January 10, 2026.

A presumption of the Faiz-e-Elahi Masjid, Turkman Gate, adjacent Ramlila Maidan connected Saturday, January 10, 2026. | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma

Delhi Police connected Sunday (January 11, 2025) arrested 2 much persons successful transportation with the pelting of stones astatine Turkman Gate, taking the total fig of arrests successful the lawsuit to 18, an authoritative said.

Those arrested truthful acold person been identified arsenic Mohd Naved (44), Mohd Faiz (20), Mohd Ubaidullah (23), Mohd Arib (25), Mohd Kashif (25), Mohd Kaif (23), Mohd Adnan (37), Sameer Hussain (40), Mohd Athar (20), Shahnawaz Alam (55), Mohd Imran (28), Mohd Imran alias Raju (36), Mohd Affan (20), Mohd Adil (20), Mohd Aamir Hamza (22), Mohd Ubaidullah (26), Fahim (30) and Mohd Sehzad (29), constabulary said.

They said elaborate information arrangements stay successful spot successful delicate pockets of the Turkman Gate area, with deployment of constabulary and paramilitary unit to support instrumentality and order.

"Drone surveillance and extended CCTV monitoring are being carried retired to support a adjacent ticker connected the area. The concern is peaceful and nether control," an serviceman said.

The probe is progressing with investigation of integer grounds and recognition of those progressive successful spreading misinformation and chromatic pelting linked to the violence.

An anti-encroachment thrust adjacent the Faiz-e-Elahi mosque successful Delhi's Ramlila Maidan country turned convulsive connected the intervening nighttime of January 6 and 7, with galore radical pelting stones and solid bottles astatine constabulary personnel, injuring 5 of them, including the area's presumption location officer.

Police utilized unit and lobbed teargas shells to quell the protest.

Trouble began aft a societal media station claimed the mosque, other the Turkman Gate, was being demolished during the anti-encroachment drive, and radical started gathering there, according to constabulary sources.

Published - January 11, 2026 12:31 p.m. IST

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