‘Intellectual Terrorists More Dangerous than Ground Workers’: Delhi Police to SC on 2020 Riots
21 November 2025 | The Indian Express
The 2020 communal riots in Delhi were orchestrated with the ultimate aim of a regime change and economic strangulation in the country and were timed to coincide with the visit of Donald Trump, who was serving as the United States President at the time, to garner international media attention, the Delhi Police reiterated in the Supreme Court on Thursday as it opposed the bail pleas of the accused. The police flagged the alleged inflammatory speeches delivered ahead of the violence and the “danger” posed by “intellectuals when they become terrorists”.
Appearing for the Delhi Police, Additional Solicitor General (ASG) S V Raju said, “I must point out… intellectuals when they guide and become terrorists, they become more dangerous than those working at the ground…. Because of state support-state fundings and subsidies, they become doctors and activists — these types of activists are dangerous.”…