The key conspirators of the Jahangirpuri riots received provocative speeches for use as tools to instigate violence during Hanuman Jayanti in April this year, the Delhi Police said in its chargesheet filed on Thursday.

The key accused in the case, Tabrez, on the evening of April 14 received a provocative speech on a WhatsApp group of which he was part. Parts of the chat in Hindi have been accessed by India Today TV.

The Delhi Police corroborated the contents of these WhatsApp chats from the statements of other accused and found that these chats were used to instigate rioters to cause violence during the Hanuman Jayanti Yatra.