The UP Police’s chargesheets filed in FIRs 163/2026, 164/2026, and 165/2026 in relation to the Noida workers’ protest case is a bundle of fairytales and falsehoods, and they reveal a vindictive attempt to entrap and wrongfully prosecute workers and activists on the basis of fabricated and contradictory claims” alleged the Campaign for the Release of Workers and Activists of Noida.

New Delhi, June 26: The Campaign for the Release of Workers and Activists of Noida (CaRWAN) has accused the Uttar Pradesh Police of fabricating evidence, contradicting its own records, and conducting a politically motivated investigation in the Noida workers’ protest case. In a detailed press statement issued after the filing of chargesheets in FIRs 163/2026, 164/2026 and 165/2026, the campaign alleged that the documents are riddled with factual inconsistencies, false claims and procedural irregularities that undermine the credibility of the prosecution’s case.

CaRWAN said the chargesheets in three of the many FIRs registered in the case, filed more than two months after the protests and subsequent arrests of workers and activists, contain conflicting arrest dates and locations for several accused persons, including Rupesh Roy, Akriti Chaudhary, Srishti Gupta, Manisha Chauhan, Satyam Verma and Himanshu Thakur.

“These chargesheets are not merely examples of incompetence. They reveal a vindictive attempt to entrap and wrongfully prosecute workers and activists on the basis of fabricated and contradictory claims,” alleged CaRWAN.  According to the campaign, these dates differ not only from eyewitness accounts and CCTV footage but also from the police’s own remand orders and case diaries.

The press statement also highlighted what it described as contradictory claims regarding activist Satyam Verma’s whereabouts. While the grounds of detention under the National Security Act (NSA) reportedly state that he was present in Noida on 10, 11 and 13 April, yet the chargesheets claim he was not in the city during that period. CaRWAN pointed out that Satyam was in Lucknow on all the dates mentioned. “On 10 April and 13 April, he was being detained and questioned in Lucknow by the UP Police themselves,” CaRWAN asserted in the press statement.

Another major allegation concerns the police’s claim that a “secret conspiracy meeting” took place on 22 March in Karawal Nagar, Delhi, where Satyam, Akriti, Himanshu and Srishti allegedly planned the violence in Noida. CaRWAN countered that they were attending the publicly announced inauguration of the Shaheed Bhagat Singh Yuva Kendra and Shaheed Bhagat Singh Library, attended by hundreds of local residents, children, writers and intellectuals, with photographs and videos of the event available in the public domain.

Across the three chargesheets, the police repeatedly claim that the accused activists either participated in violence or incited workers through provocative speeches and messages. The campaign said that despite two months of investigation, the seizure of phones and electronic devices, and having access to CCTV footage and publicly available videos, the police have failed to produce any photographs, videos, messages or recordings showing the accused activists committing or inciting violence. It argued that the chargesheets rely entirely on unsupported assertions rather than documentary evidence.

CaRWAN also questioned the authenticity of witness statements, claiming that several statements reproduced in Chargesheet 163 are identical, word for word, despite being attributed to different witnesses, including company officials, security guards and police personnel. “It strongly suggests that statements were pre-written and mechanically reproduced without any serious attempt to record independent testimony,” alleged CaRWAN. The campaign said this raises serious doubt on the authenticity of the witness statements and raises troubling questions about the entire investigation, especially when viewed alongside the numerous allegations by workers and activists regarding intimidation, custodial torture, harassment and fabrication of evidence.

Describing the chargesheets as evidence of either “extraordinary incompetence or deliberate fabrication,” CaRWAN alleged that what emerges the investigation is the picture of a police force acting not as an impartial investigative agency but as an instrument deployed against workers and activists in a politically charged labour dispute. The entire investigation is driven by an effort to manufacture a narrative to persecute workers and activists while serving corporate interests rather than establishing the truth.

The campaign called for greater public scrutiny of the chargesheets and reiterated its demand for the release of the arrested workers and activists.

The press statement is given below.

A bundle of fairytales and falsehoods: What is inside UP Police’s Chargesheets in FIRs 163/2026, 164/2026, and 165/2026 in relation to the Noida workers’ protest case.

Two months after the isolated incidents of violence during the Noida workers’ protests, two months after the widespread arrests of activists and workers, the UP Police have finally filed chargesheets in 3 of the many FIRs it has filed in the case. These documents will elicit one of two responses from any informed, sensible reader: uncontrollable laughter or a sharp headache. Such are the number of contradictions, inconsistencies, and blatant falsehoods. We wish to address some of the most glaring contradictions below, as an illustration of the UP Police’s incompetence and idiocy, but more importantly, their vindictive entrapment and wrongful persecution of activists and workers based on complete falsehoods.

Ever-changing dates and places:

The most basic, incontrovertible fact of any case is the date and place of arrest. However, in the hands of UP Police, this is something that changes across their own documents! In all three chargesheets, the dates of arrest for Rupesh Roy, Akriti Chaudhary, Srishti Gupta and Manisha Chauhan are different from the dates of arrest stated in their remand orders! For FIRs 164 and 165, the remand orders for the four activists state the date of arrest as 17 April, whereas in the chargesheet it is stated as 27 April for Akriti, Srishti and Manisha, and 7 May for Rupesh. In FIR 163 the dates in remand order are 12 April for Rupesh and 15 April for Akriti, Srishti, and Manisha, while it is stated as 22 April for Akriti and Srishti, 24 April for Manisha, and 7 May for Rupesh! It must also be noted that all four of the activists were arrested by UP STF in front of thousands of eyewitnesses and on live video, from the Botanical Garden Metro Station in Noida at around 7pm on 11 April itself!

In the case of Satyam Verma as well, we see the UP Police commit the same mistake. CCTV footage establishes that Satyam was picked up from his residence in Lucknow by UP Police on 17 April, around 11pm. However, the chargesheets claim that he was arrested on 19 April from the Phase II Police Station! Himanshu Thakur’s case is also similar. He was picked up by police from Shalimar Bagh in Delhi. Case Diary 11 in FIR 163 records that he was taken to the police station on 18. April. But in the chargesheet, the date and place of arrest are made out to be 19 April, and Phase III Police Station.

The UP Police is so incompetent and negligent that it cannot even maintain a consistent narrative or refer to its own documents!

Schrodinger’s suspect: UP Police cannot decide where Satyam Verma was during the protests.  

The esteemed officers of UP Police who are drafting the reports and chargesheets need to come to a consensus on their narrative. In the document submitted to and passed by the District Magistrate stating Satyam Verma’s grounds of detention under the National Security Act, it is stated that Satyam was present in Noida on 10, 11 and 13 April 2026. However, in the chargesheets filed, the same UP Police claims that he was not in Noida during that time! Since the UP Police refuses to open the box of facts, Satyam is in Noida in one document, and missing in another.  While the UP Police grapples with this philosophical mystery, hard facts point to Satyam’s presence in Lucknow on all the specified dates. In fact, on 10 April and 13 April, Satyam was being detained and questioned in Lucknow by UP police themselves!

 “Secret Conspiracy Meeting”: Public inauguration of a children’s library and youth centre!

UP Police’s storytelling abilities are on display once again in the chargesheet for FIR 165, where they claim that a secret meeting organised on 22 March at Karawal Nagar in Delhi, where the accused activists Satyam, Akriti, Himanshu and Srishti pre-planned the violence in Noida. The four activists were present at Karawal Nagar on 22 March. But so were hundreds of other people, as they were all attending the public inauguration function of Shaheed Bhagat Singh Yuva Kendra and Shaheed Bhagat Singh Library. The Youth Centre was under construction for over a year, and its inauguration ceremony was announced on 14 March itself. The program saw prize distribution ceremony of painting, chess, quiz competitions held for children in the neighbourhood. Children sang songs, and intellectuals, poets, writers addressed the gathering. Photos and videos of the entire day’s events are available in the public realm. If this event is a covert conspiracy meeting for the UP Police, then we would not be surprised if the little children of Karawal Nagar are also named as co-conspirators in the Noida case!

Claims of violent actions and messages: Not a single photo, video or message to show in over two months of “investigation”!

Across the three chargesheets, the UP police claim that the accused activists were involved in violent acts, or incited workers to violence through incendiary and provocative messages or speeches. Since 9 April, numerous videos are available in public domain, since 11 April onwards, the police have seized the devices of arrested activists and workers, and despite having access to all CCTV footage, the police have not been able to produce one single piece of evidence: not one single message, photo, or video of any activists inciting or committing any act of violence. Even at the stage of filing chargesheets, the UP Police has nothing to show except its extremely questionable assertions. If the mighty UP Police cannot produce even one such evidence in more than two months, one would think it is either lying or utterly incompetent, but unfortunately, it is both!

 Verbatim same witness statements:

UP Police strongly believes that a bad job must be done badly! In the witness statements provided in Chargesheet 163, there are multiple instances where numerous witnesses have given the same statement, verbatim! In Case Diary 28, the HR Manager of Richa Global company and two security guards have recorded the exact same statement. In Case Diary 1, two different police officers and the police report quote the exact same statement. In the same document, this happens again with two other, different officers. Clearly the statements are pre-written, doctored, and repeated without any application of sense!

This lazy work reveals the sinister truth behind the authenticity of witness statements recorded by the UP Police. It throws every witness or accused statement recorded in these documents under serious suspicion of fabrication. Seen along with the multiple accounts of intimidation, harassment, custodial torture and fabrication of evidence made by workers and activists, these inconsistencies compel us to question every word of these chargesheets.

These three chargesheets ultimately tell us that either the UP Police has completely lost the plot or it is openly lying. Apart from the above-mentioned, there are endless errors from basic facts like dates and addresses to more blatant, baseless allegations of guilt, and ofcourse, the ever present 9-digit phone numbers of the police officers, etc. which cannot possibly be covered here.

The UP police’s consistent incompetence in the course of this investigation, now displayed in these chargesheets, reveals the real motives of the UP Police. These contradictions, fabrications all point to the fact that today, the UP Police is acting at the behest of corporate interests. They are acting as the hired goons in uniform for these owners, carrying out a completely botched-up investigation and persecuting innocent activists and workers in their efforts to prove its loyalty to their corporate masters.

– Campaign for the Release of Workers and Activists of Noida (CaRWAN)