As many as 19 more allegedrioters have been arrested in connection with the Azad Maidanviolence here, taking the total number of arrests in the caseso far to 43, police said today.
The 19 people have been arrested since last eveningfrom various parts of the city, police said adding that two ofthem, identified as Niyazuddin Shaikh (28) and MohammedHussain Ansari (21), were produced before a metropolitanmagistrate court which remanded them in police custody tillAugust 28.
"We have the CCTV footage in which the two were shownrioting along with the mob that indulged in destruction ofproperty," police told the court.
The remaining 17 will be produced before the courttomorrow.
The 19 rioters were involved in various violent actslike pelting stones, torching the vehicles and beatingpolicemen, they said adding that seven or eight of them weresuspected to have a criminal background.
Two youths were killed and 52, including 44 policemen,injured on August 11 when a rally called to protest allegedatrocities on Muslims in Assam and Myanmar turned violent.
The protesters went on a rampage, attacking thepolice, including some women constables, torching media andpolice vehicles, smashing cameras of photo journalists anddamaging buses.
A day after the riots, police had arrested 23 peoplein connection with the incident. Subsequently on Thursday,Salim Allarakha Choukiya alias Ali (23), who had snatched arifle from the police during the riots, had been arrested fromAnand nagar area of suburban Oshiwara.