'Kapil Mishra's statement sparked the Delhi riots'

February 28, 2020 14:06

"BJP leader Kapil Mishra was standing with a deputy commissioner of police while giving a hate speech. Immediately, the message goes down that the police is 'with us', so let's start rioting."

Film-maker and social activist Rahul Roy worked in the relief camps for victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. It was his plea on which Justice S Muralidhar directed the Delhi police to ensure safe passage to injured victims and provide emergency treatment at government hospitals.

"If the police wants to stop a communal riot, it does not take more than four hours for them to do so," Roy tells Rediff.com's Syed Firdaus Ashraf.

Read the interview here.

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