Senior advocate Prashant Bhushan said on Thursday that he had filed a complaint against the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Youth Morcha leader Manish Chandela who reportedly tweeted that he was behind a fire at a camp for Rohingya refugees in Delhi on April 15. Chandela’s Twitter account has reportedly has been deleted since.
In his letter to the Tilak Nagar Police Station, Bhushan attached screenshots of tweets from Chandela’s purported account. “Yes, we burnt the houses of Rohingya terrorists,” the tweet read. Scroll.in could not independently verify the authenticity of Chandela’s tweet.
Bhushan said the Delhi Police were yet to register a case and arrest Chandela. “No action by Bharatiya Janata Party to remove him. State of rule of law under BJP,” he tweeted.
Attempts to contact the Tilak Nagar Station House officer for a comment failed.
On Thursday, a Muslim group, All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat, wrote to Delhi Police Commissioner Amulya Patnaik seeking action against Chandela, IANS reported. The group is an umbrella body of various Muslim organisations, it said in the letter.
The Rohingya camp in South East Delhi’s Kalindi Kunj area was razed to the ground in the fire on Sunday. A non-governmental organisation had set up the camp in 2012 on a 150-odd square metre plot it owns. It housed 46 families – 226 people – and was the only Rohingya camp in the city. The families have been moved to a temporary camp set up in the area.
The predominantly-Muslim Rohingya community has been fleeing Myanmar’s Rakhine state for the past several years, fearing persecution by the country’s Buddhist government. Myanmar has refused to grant the Rohingyas citizenship. In October 2016, it launched a military offensive against the community, claiming that it was targeting extremist groups.
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