Jahangirpuri violence: Forensic team reaches ground zero amid security

Jahangirpuri violence: The clashes broke out when the Shobha Yatra procession was passing through the road just next to Kusal Cinema Hall, on the opposite side of which is a mosque.

An eight-member forensic team on Monday reached Jahangirpuri to collect samples in connection with the communal violence that occurred on Hanuman Jayanti in the national capital.

Besides taking photographs of the buildings from where the stones were pelted, the team will also collect forensic samples from the ground.

The team is likely to furnish its report within a week.

"It has reached the mosque where violence started. Staff posted with Jahangirpuri Police Station is accompanying and briefing it besides helping it collect evidence, " said a senior police official.

On Saturday, the clashes broke out between the two