LUCKNOW: After visiting the riot-hit areas of north-east Delhi, prominent Shia cleric Maulana Kalbe Jawad termed the violence 'state-sponsored' where police and right wing goons committed arson with a free hand and killed people. Jawad demanded that the Prime Minister (PM) act strongly against culprits of the carnage.In a press statement that was released on Friday and a presser held in Delhi a day earlier, Jawad condemned the central government's role in the riots, saying it allowed rioters to kill and burn. The cleric, who is the general secretary of Majlis-e-Ulama-e-Hind (Muh), was accompanied by Supreme Court lawyers Mahmood Pracha and Bahadur Abbas Naqvi, among others when the visit to affected areas was made."The situation is not just condemnable but also worrisome in these areas. One of the mosques burnt in NE Delhi had no Hindu population around it and we have been informed that it was Delhi police that broke into the mosque and burnt the Quran. Not just that it was the Delhi police that killed people there," the statement said."The riot was state sponsored planned attack by BJP and RSS," he claimed. "Why was it that the violence broke out during the visit of US President Donald Trump ? This shows there are two groups working within the government and it was this RSS group and BJP's state machinery which raged violence," he alleged.As per Jawad, the violence was planned to suppress peaceful protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC)."Venomous speeches were made to incite people against peaceful sit-ins by BJP members. Police was present with rioters inside mosques, madrasas and homes. It did not reach in time to stop the violence and help people out, instead it added fuel to the fire along with the rioters," Jawad said."This shows that there were orders to the police to not perform its duty. A single person, Tahir Hussain , is being blamed for the entire riot. Can one person do so much harm? The government is making him a scapegoat to save real culprits and hide its own deficiencies," the statement said.After being to the ground zero of the riots with the delegation, Jawad further claimed, "At another area we were informed by locals that the police was carrying two firearms. If one was the legal one, where did the other illegal one come from with the police? We will take this fight to a logical legal end."Supreme Court lawyer Mahmood Pracha, who was also present at the presser, said, "We will lodge cases in the court for people who are missing, for those who have died and lost their homes. The ones who died were killed by police, and so we will file cases against higher officials, the DCP and others responsible."