India / 26-yr-old Intelligence Bureau officer killed in Delhi violence, dumped in drain

New Delhi: An Intelligence Bureau officer was killed by a stone-pelting mob in Delhi’s Chandbagh area last night and his body was dumped in a drain, his uncle said. The officer killed was 26 years old.

The officer was identified as Ankit Sharma and worked as security assistant in the IB. The violence in north-east Delhi over the amended citizenship law has claimed 20 lives so far.

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has called the situation in Delhi “alarming”, and urged the Centre to call in the army to stem the protests. The CM said he will be writing a letter to the Centre for the same.

The Congress, led by its president Sonia Gandhi, launched a blistering attack on the Centre and the Delhi government for the violence in the city. The party demanded immediate resignation of Union home minister Amit Shah for “colossal failure” to restore normalcy.

The protest started in Jafrabad, Maujpur and other areas of Northeast Delhi on Saturday, but flared up over the weekend. The groups protesting for and against the Citizenship (Amendment) act or CAA were seen roaming on streets with swords and pistols. Houses and vehicles in the area were torched and more than 250 injured in two days of violence.

Though the protesters shifted from the main road under the Jafrabad Metro station on Wednesday morning, there are reports of a fresh round of violence in two Northeast Delhi pockets of Chand Bagh and Gokulpuri. Some protesters started pelting stones, which led to a crackdown by cops in these areas.