The Delhi Police have named 15 people as accused in the chargesheet filed over the violence that took place in national capital in February this year. The  over 20,000 pages chargesheet not only has names of all those who made provocative statements during the protest against the National Citizenship Law which began in the month of December, but all the accused had also plotted the Delhi riots in February, which had left 50 dead and several injured.

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The charge sheet was filed in the court of Additional Sessions Judge Abitabh Rawat in Karkardooma Court. The 15 people named in the chargesheet has been accused under sections of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, IPC and Arms Act.

The charge sheet in Delhi riots case filed today does not have names of Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam as accused as they were arrested a few days ago. So, their names will be in the supplementary charge sheet.

These are the 15 people named in the chargesheet:

1- Tahir Hussain2- Muhammad Parvez Ahmed3- Muhammad Ilyas4- Saifi Khalid5- Ishrat Jahan6- Miran Haider7- Safoora Jargar8- Asif Iqbal Tanha9- Shadab Ahmed10- Natasha Narwal11- Devangana Kalita12- Taslim Ahmed13- Salim Malik14- Muhammad Salim Khan15- Athar Khan

Earlier on Monday, Delhi's Karkardooma court granted 10-day custody of former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student Umar Khalid to the Special Cell of Delhi Police, which reportedly said that it wants to confront Khalid with over 11 lakh pages of documents in connection with Delhi riots.

On February 24 this year, communal clashes broke out in northeast Delhi after clashes between supporters of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and those against the legislation spiraled out of control, leaving at least 53 people dead and around 200 injured.