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    • FIR against organisers of Hanuman Jayanti procession in Delhi's Jahangirpuri

      Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) of Northwest Delhi Usha Rangnani said the FIR was registered under IPC Section 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant) against the organisers of the rally on Saturday evening, and one of them has joined the investigation.

    • Jahangirpuri violence: 14 arrested, Delhi Police meet peace committees to cool tensions

      One of the arrested accused, Md Aslam, fired a bullet that hit a Delhi Police sub-inspector. The pistol used by him has been recovered from his possession.

    • Jahangirpuri violence: Amit Shah speaks to top Delhi Police, directs them to take action

      Violence broke out in northwest Delhi's Jahangirpuri area on Saturday as stones were pelted at a procession taken out on Hanuman Jayanti, officials said. Several police personnel were injured and some vehicles were torched by mobs during the incident.

    • Delhi riots bail case: Issue of reading down of UAPA can have pan-India ramifications, says SC

      A vacation bench of Justices Hemant Gupta and V Ramasubramanian termed as “troubling” that the high court has written 100 pages discussing the entire anti-terror law UAPA while deciding the bail applications in the case and said it will require interpretation by the apex court.

    • Delhi HC grants interim bail to Pinjra Tod activist Natasha Narwal after father dies of COVID-19

      A Division Bench comprising of Justices Siddharth Mridul and Anup J. Bhambhani noted that there is nobody else in the family to perform the cremation as her brother is also down with COVID and their mother passed away 15 years ago.

    • Delhi violence: HC seeks police reply on plea challenging prosecution sanction under anti-terror law

      The Special Cell of the Delhi Police had named in its charge sheet 15 accused under the provisions of stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in connection with the violence that erupted in the northeast parts of the national capital in February.

    • Delhi Assembly panel summons Facebook India’s VP over platform's alleged role in ‘aggravating’ February riots

      Witnesses have reportedly said that an independent investigation must be carried out against Facebook’s alleged role and complicity in the "orchestration and aggravation" of northeast Delhi riots.

    • Delhi riots 2020: Amnesty International accuses police of rights abuses, demands probe

      Amnesty International has claimed it has documented videos showing police “pelting stones with the rioters, torturing people, dismantling protest sites and being mute bystanders” during the riots in north-east Delhi.

    • Ex-AAP councillor Tahir Hussain confesses to being Delhi riots mastermind: Report

      Tahir Hussain has been named as an accused in the murder of an Intelligence Bureau (IB) staffer whose body was pulled out of a drain in Chand Bagh with as many as 30 stab wounds.

    • Pinjra Tod activist started media trial to gain sympathy in Delhi violence case: Police to Delhi HC

      The police filed an affidavit in response to a plea by JNU student Devangana Kalitha alleging that the probe agency was selectively leaking, to the media, certain information regarding allegations against her and the evidence allegedly collected against her.

    • Delhi violence: Police tells court Zargar allegedly gave inflammatory speeches to incite riots

      The submissions were made before Additional Sessions Judge Dharmender Rana during the hearing of Zargar's bail plea through video conferencing.

    • Delhi riots: Court dismisses suspended AAP Councillor Tahir Hussain's bail plea

      The plea claimed Hussain has been wrongly dragged into the matter which appeared to be a result of a well-thought-out plan of his political rivals to falsely implicate him.

    • Delhi violence: Jamia Alumni Association president booked under UAPA, sent to police custody

      The police told the court that Shifa-Ur-Rehman, also a member of Jamia Coordination Committee, was involved in a criminal conspiracy along with former JNU student Umar Khalid.

    • Radical Pakistani Twitter handles provoked Indian Muslims during riots, report suggests

      Seventy handles from Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, and Rawalpindi were tweeting using the hashtag #DelhiRiots2020, while more than 100 handles were using the hashtag #DelhiBurning

    • Delhi violence: Suspended AAP councillor Tahir Hussain sent to 3-day custody

      Hussain was arrested on March 5 after a court in Delhi dismissed his plea seeking to surrender before it in connection with the case and was later sent to seven-day police custody the next day.

    • Delhi riots: Islamist body president, secretary arrested for inciting violence

      Popular Front of India (PFI) was found to be funding the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protests that rocked the country for almost two months.

    • Delhi violence: Congress fact-finding committee submits report to Sonia Gandhi

      The committee included Mukul Wasnik, Tariq Anwar, Sushmita Dev, Shaktisinh Gohil and Kumari Selja.

    • I&B ministry lifts 48-hour ban on Asianet News, Media One

      Sources said the two channels had written to the ministry seeking revocation of the bans, following which it was lifted.

    • Delhi Waqf Board releases Rs 50 lakh for repair of property damaged in communal violence

      "The Construction Committee of Delhi Waqf Board will undertake repair work from Saturday. The houses and shops of affected people, no matter which religion they belong to, will be repaired by the Waqf Board and an amount of Rs 50 lakh was released for the purpose," Khan said.

    • Delhi violence: Police go door-to-door looking for videos to prove they were attacked in Chand Bagh

      Delhi Police has claimed that five videos were recorded around noon on February 24, which proves that police personnel were attacked near Chand Bagh

    • SC refuses Delhi violence victim to intervene in hate speech case of activist Harsh Mander

      Senior advocate Colin Gonsalves mentioned the matter before a bench headed by CJI Bobde and said that the riot victim wanted to intervene in the Harsh Mander case, which is scheduled to be heard on March 6.

    • Modi government using coronavirus as a ploy to shift focus from riots: Mamata Banerjee

      Targeting Home Minister Amit Shah, who had claimed at a rally in Kolkata that BJP would topple the Mamata Banerjee government in 2021, she said: "Manage Delhi first. Think of Bengal only after that."

    • Everything under control, says police chief S N Shrivastava after meeting Amit Shah on Delhi violence

      "Everything is under control and we are on top of the situation," he told PTI after the meeting.

    • Delhi violence: SC refers to HC plea seeking lodging of FIRs against politicians for hate speech

      The affected people have sought registration of FIRs against politicians for alleged hate speeches.

    • Delhi violence: Rajya Sabha adjourned for day, Oppn seeks immediate discussion

      Rajya Sabha proceedings adjourned without transacting any business as opposition parties created ruckus demanding an immediate discussion on the Delhi violence.

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