A group presented the findings of the report in a press conference in Delhi on Monday, which consisted of former Indian ambassador Deb Mukharji, former Union home secretary Gopal Pillai, historian Mridula Mukherjee, senior journalist and researcher Pamela Philipose, and writer and former member of Planning Commission of India Syeda Hameed.
Opposing the bail plea of Umar Khalid, an accused in Anti Muslim Northeast Delhi violence case, a Special Public Prosecutor on Friday brought the example of the 9/11 attack in the US.
In the first sentencing in the 2020 Delhi Riots cases, a Delhi Court on Thursday awarded a man five-year jail term after he was found guilty of rioting and setting on fire
Nearly two years after Nisar Ahmed, a Delhi riots victim, filed a complaint regarding vandalism and ransacking of his house and shop in north-east Delhi’s Bhagirathi Vihar, Delhi Police has said that it has found “no sufficient evidence” against BJP leader Kanhaiya Lal, one of the accused in the case. Mr. Ahmed had also alleged that burqa-clad women were being killed and thrown into the Bhagirathi drain.
14th November marks the 500th day of the wrongful imprisonment of Anti CAA NRC activist Athar Khan. Delhi Police detained Athar on July 2nd, 2020 in connection with Anti Muslim Delhi violence.
A mob of 200-250 people was mobilised with a large public address system, where “a clarion call was being given to the persons of a particular community to go and vandalise and put on fire the houses of persons of other community”.
Saleem Kassar told the police that “a riotous mob after breaking open the doors of his house with iron rods and dandas, had looted the same and thereafter set it on fire
Anwarul Hoda talked to Akhlad Khan, to discuss Shahrukh Pathan case and uncover the information and facts which are hardly spoken
Haider’s arrest wasn’t an isolated event but an example of the State’s attempt to criminalize speech by arresting activists and defenders in the country
