The SIT is also probing if there was a common link in all the cases of violence during the CAA stir.

NEW DELHI: Five people including two Bangladeshi nationals have been arrested for being involved in the violence in north-east Delhi during the anti-CAA protest on December 20. Police say that three of them are residents of Delhi and UP, while the other two were found to be Bangladeshi nationals staying illegally at JJ camps in Seeampuri and Usmanpur.

Two juveniles have also been detained for their involvement in the violence.

The SIT probing the cases have found the role of at least 15 criminals with their origins in Bangladesh to be involved in the violence that took place in Seemapuri on December 20. Sources said that all of them were involved in criminal cases earlier and have been staying in JJ Colony in the border areas illegally.

The SIT is now looking into the funding of the protest and it suspects foreign involvement. The team will also visit Tihar Jail to interrogate the arrested rioters to establish this.

During the Seemapuri protests, a group of people protesting at the Delhi-Ghaziabad border had suddenly turned violent and started pelting stones at vehicles parked nearby. When the police tried to intervene, the mob chased after the handful of policemen and targeted them with stones and broken bottles.

Sources said the SIT was also probing whether there was a common link in all the cases of violence during the CAA stir.

They are also trying to find the source from which huge gatherings at Seelampur and Daryaganj were mobilised. Some of the WhatsApp groups through which the youths were mobilised are also being scanned to identify the people who have been motivating the people to join the protest.

It was found that riots were being spear-headed by a handful of people. Efforts are being made to establish whether they were the same set of people involved in sparking all the instances of violence.



In Video: Two Bangladeshi nationals arrested for violence in north-east Delhi