The Delhi Police has claimed that pro-Khalistani elements were behind the violence on the national capital roads earlier this week. Police said that there are evidence pointing towards involvement of Khalistani sympathisers in the rampage that left over 400 cops injured. 

Police said that the violence was a well plotted conspiracy and efforts are underway to identify suspicious twitter accounts that provoked the crowd. Also, six individuals are on the police radar who are said to be the mastermid of the violence.

According to news agency ANI, intelligence agencies had sounded an alarm about the possibility of external elements hijacking the tractor parade and resorting to violence.On January 26, thousands of protesting farmers, who reached ITO from the Ghazipur border, clashed with the police. Many of them, driving tractors, reached the Red Fort and entered the monument. They hoisted flags on the domes and placed the flagstaff at the ramparts of the national monument, where the national flag is unfurled by the prime minister on Independence Day.