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Delhi Riots: Court Slams Police For Not Supplying Coloured Photos Relied Upon in Charge Sheet to Accused
26 Oct 2021
A delhi court has pulled up the police for not complying with its directions to supply coloured photographs and CCTV footage to the accused in February 2020 riots cases in a time-bound manner, asking…
Priyanka Ishwari
‘Helping Others is Her Nature’: Brother of Jailed Activist Gulfisha Fatima, as Calls Rise to Free Her
14 Oct 2021
To her friends and hundreds who participated in anti-CAA protests in Jaffrabad, Gulfisha became a ‘powerful voice of collective assertion and democratic resistance’ against the CAA-NRC.
Sanchita Kadam
Delhi Violence: HC Transfers Judge Who Criticised Delhi Police's Investigation
07 Oct 2021
Additional Sessions Judge Vinod Yadav had, in the past few months, pulled up many officials of Delhi Police for their callous approach to investigation, and had in some cases even granted bail…
PTI
Delhi Riots: ‘Police Witness Lying on Oath’, Says Court on Contradictory Statements
06 Oct 2021
The judge made the observations after examining four prosecution witnesses in a case pertaining to the February 2020 riots in which 53 people died and over 700 were injured.
The Leaflet
Police Harassment of Delhi Riot Victim ‘Real’, not ‘Illusory’, Says Delhi Court
06 Oct 2021
The judge also expressed displeasure at the investigation being carried out by the police.
PTI
Delhi Riots: Court Orders Rs 5,000 Salary Cut of Errant Police Officer for 'Casual' Approach
29 Sep 2021
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Arun Kumar Garg imposed the fine after the Delhi police failed to comply with a previous order.
Newsclick Report
Activists and Intellectuals Condemn 'Indimidatory' Raids by Govt. Agencies on Harsh Mander
16 Sep 2021
ED officers raided offices of the Centre of Equity Studies (CES) – an institution headed by Mander – and his home at Vasant Kunj. The IT deparment raided another place of work this morning too.
The Leaflet
Delhi Police’s 2020 Riots Probe: Confusion Worse Confounded
12 Sep 2021
The shoddy FIRs and chargesheets relating to the Delhi communal riots of February 2020 prepared by the Delhi police have much to do with the political interpretation of the events imposed by the…
Suhit K Sen
Judiciary Must Keep Holding Untrammelled Regime to Account
31 Aug 2021
The judiciary is stepping in to curb the regime’s excesses, and the executive arms as a whole. It is cause for cautious optimism.
PTI
Delhi Riots: HC Stays Rs 25,000 Costs on Delhi Police, Refuses to Interfere with Trial Court Strictures for Now
28 Jul 2021
Additional Sessions Judge Vinod Yadav had pulled up the police for lack of efficacy and fairness in the investigation in the case and said that it had been done in a most casual, callous, and…