Delhi riots: Shaheen Bagh women demand fair probe, compensation of Rs one crore for victims of violence
4 years, 9 months ago

Delhi riots: Shaheen Bagh women demand fair probe, compensation of Rs one crore for victims of violence

Firstpost  

“There should be an inquiry about how the people came to Delhi from Uttar Pradesh and during the violence,” a group of women at Shaheen Bagh said at a late-night press conference. “We want a fair probe into the violence in Jaffrabad, Shiv Vihar and Maujpur.” New Delhi: The women of Shaheen Bagh demanded on Friday a fair probe in the communal violence in northeast Delhi and a compensation of Rs 1 crore to the victims. “There should be an inquiry about how the people came to Delhi from Uttar Pradesh and during the violence,” a group of women at the site said at a late-night press conference. “We want a fair probe into the violence in Jaffrabad, Shiv Vihar and Maujpur.” The communal clashes that broke out in northeast Delhi on 24 February and continued till 26 February, claimed at least 53 lives and leftover 200 people injured, besides inflicting massive damage to properties and businesses.

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Protests weren't organic: Delhi Police oppose bail plea of 2020 riots accused
1 day, 10 hours ago

Protests weren't organic: Delhi Police oppose bail plea of 2020 riots accused

India Today  

The Delhi Police opposed bail pleas filed by several accused in the 2020 North-East Delhi riots case, including Sharjeel Imam and Umar Khalid, during a hearing in the Delhi High Court on Wednesday. Special Public Prosecutor Amit Prasad argued that the Shaheen Bagh protest lacked local support and was orchestrated by bringing people from other areas. Prasad further contended that …

Delhi’s protest hub Shaheen Bagh calm but tense after CAA comes into force
9 months, 4 weeks ago

Delhi’s protest hub Shaheen Bagh calm but tense after CAA comes into force

Hindustan Times  

Shaheen Bagh, a locality which was once the epicentre of the anti-Citizenship Act protests for more than three months between late 2019 and early 2020, was on Tuesday bustling with pedestrians and vehicles — it was business as usual for this corner of southeast Delhi, a day after the Centre implemented the contentious law that paves the way for citizenship …

Security tightened in Shaheen Bagh, many areas over CAA
9 months, 4 weeks ago

Security tightened in Shaheen Bagh, many areas over CAA

New Indian Express  

NEW DELHI: The security in the national capital was heightened, especially in communally sensitive areas, after the Ministry of Home Affairs notified the rules for implementing the Citizenship Act on Monday. Deputy Commissioner of Police Joy Tirkey said police personnel patrolled and checked sensitive areas extensively. Tirkey said 29 ‘Aman Committee’ meetings were convened to dispel misconceptions about the CAA …

2020 Delhi riots: Ishrat Jahan, 12 others charged with attempt to murder
11 months, 3 weeks ago

2020 Delhi riots: Ishrat Jahan, 12 others charged with attempt to murder

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: A Delhi court on Friday framed charges of attempt to murder, rioting, unlawful assembly and other related offences against former Congress councillor Ishrat Jahan, activist Khalid Saifi and 11 others in a case related to the 2020 North-East Delhi Riots. “HC Yograj, who is the complainant and an eyewitness to accused persons forming part of the armed unlawful …

Massive protests take place against mob assaults on women in India's remote northeastern state
1 year, 5 months ago

Massive protests take place against mob assaults on women in India's remote northeastern state

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Thousands of people, mostly women, …

India’s tribal groups protest against Manipur mob sexual assaults
1 year, 5 months ago

India’s tribal groups protest against Manipur mob sexual assaults

Al Jazeera  

Thousands of demonstrators demand immediate arrest of those involved in sexual assaults on two women that caused an outcry. Thousands of tribals, mostly women, have staged a massive sit-in protest in India’s Manipur, demanding the arrest of those involved in the harrowing mob assaults on two women, as the opposition parties slammed the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party for …

Shahnawaz, Shoaib and 7 others convicted in a Delhi Riots case, court says their objective was to cause maximum damage to properties of Hindus
1 year, 9 months ago

Shahnawaz, Shoaib and 7 others convicted in a Delhi Riots case, court says their objective was to cause maximum damage to properties of Hindus

Op India  

On Monday, March 13, Delhi’s Karkardooma court convicted nine persons involved in the 2020 anti-Hindu Delhi riots. The court noted that the main objective of the convicts who joined the unruly mob guided by ‘communal feelings’ was to cause ‘maximum damage’ to the properties belonging to the people of the Hindu community. Hence, those charged are convicted for offences covered …

Why Haldwani protest has become Shaheen Bagh-like political flashpoint in Uttarakhand
2 years ago

Why Haldwani protest has become Shaheen Bagh-like political flashpoint in Uttarakhand

India Today  

On Thursday, the Supreme Court stayed the Uttarakhand High Court's order asking residents of Haldwani to evacuate from 29 acres of "railway" land. This is because the high court order might lead to the demolition of schools, temples, banks, mosques and about 4,000 houses seen as encroachments on government land. On Wednesday, Uttarakhand's former chief minister and Congress leader Harish …

Why Haldwani protest has become Shaheen Bagh-like political flashpoint in Uttarakhand
2 years ago

Why Haldwani protest has become Shaheen Bagh-like political flashpoint in Uttarakhand

India Today  

On Thursday, the Supreme Court stayed the Uttarakhand High Court's order asking residents of Haldwani to evacuate from 29 acres of "railway" land. This is because the high court order might lead to the demolition of schools, temples, banks, mosques and about 4,000 houses seen as encroachments on government land. On Wednesday, Uttarakhand's former chief minister and Congress leader Harish …

Delhi riots not organic but planned by PFI & SDPI, special public prosecutor tells HC
2 years, 4 months ago

Delhi riots not organic but planned by PFI & SDPI, special public prosecutor tells HC

Firstpost  

The submission was made by the police while opposing the bail plea of former Jawaharlal Nehru University student Umar Khalid in connection with an Unlawful Activities Act case related to the alleged conspiracy behind the Delhi riots in February 2020 New Delhi: The Delhi Police Tuesday told the Delhi High Court that the protests at Shaheen Bagh in the backdrop …

[Delhi Riots] Shaheen Bagh Not An Independent Movement, Protest Sites Planned In Close Proximity To Masjids: Prosecution Tells High Court
2 years, 4 months ago

[Delhi Riots] Shaheen Bagh Not An Independent Movement, Protest Sites Planned In Close Proximity To Masjids: Prosecution Tells High Court

Live Law  

Opposing the bail plea of Student Activist Umar Khalid in Delhi riots larger conspiracy case, the prosecution on Tuesday told Delhi High Court that the 24x7 sit in protest sites were planned and organised and were situated in close proximity to masjids. A special bench comprising of Justice Siddharth Mridul and Justice Rajnish Bhatnagar was hearing the appeal filed by …

Revealed: Connecting the dots between Jahangirpuri violence and 2020 Delhi riots
2 years, 8 months ago

Revealed: Connecting the dots between Jahangirpuri violence and 2020 Delhi riots

India TV News  

Highlights Special Cell likely to take over Jahangirpuri case C Block Kushal Chowk had a connection with the 2020 North-East riots of Delhi The protests against CAA/NRC had mainly illegal Bangladeshi women and children Jahangirpuri Violence: The Special Cell or the Crime Branch of Delhi Police is likely to take over the Jahangirpuri violence case in which eight police personnel …

How Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh, famous for anti-CAA protest, is backing Karnataka’s hijab stir
2 years, 11 months ago

How Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh, famous for anti-CAA protest, is backing Karnataka’s hijab stir

Firstpost  

Shaheen Bagh earned popularity in 2019-2020 when thousands of people from all walks of life had collected for over 100 days to protest against the Centre’s Citizenship Amendment Act The Karnataka hijab row seems to only be growing further with now protests at Shaheen Bagh in Delhi. Protests at Shaheen Bagh On Wednesday, Muslims of Shaheen Bagh took to the …

Delhi Riots: Courts to Ensure Law Does Not Become Tool for Targeted Harassment, Says HC
2 years, 11 months ago

Delhi Riots: Courts to Ensure Law Does Not Become Tool for Targeted Harassment, Says HC

News 18  

It is the Constitutional duty of the court to ensure there is no "arbitrary deprivation of personal liberty in the face of excess of State power", the Delhi High Court has observed while granting bail to two accused in a case of murder of an elderly woman in connection with the 2020 north-east Delhi riots. While the high court granted …

'Mind has to be applied': Court raps police over probe into Delhi riots case
3 years, 4 months ago

'Mind has to be applied': Court raps police over probe into Delhi riots case

India Today  

In yet another case related to the Delhi riots of February 2020, a sessions court has reprimanded the Delhi Police for its investigation. The court also said, “It is also relevant to note here that till date the investigating agency has not been able to apprehend any other accused person in the matter, meaning thereby that no progress/further investigation in …

Delhi: Student organisations, activists protest against minor girl's rape-murder, demand speedy justice
3 years, 5 months ago

Delhi: Student organisations, activists protest against minor girl's rape-murder, demand speedy justice

India Today  

Several activists and student organisations staged a protest against the alleged rape and murder of a nine-year-old Dalit girl in southwest Delhi's old Nangal village on Wednesday. "Sexual violence against women is a larger problem concerning a patriarchal society wherein women are rendered inferior and powerless, as objects of men's carnal desires and domination," it said. READ: Delhi rape, murder …

1 year since cycle of violence, which led to the Delhi anti-Hindu riots
4 years ago

1 year since cycle of violence, which led to the Delhi anti-Hindu riots

Op India  

As Macbeth said, “Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.” And this was perhaps proven true during the ides of December 2019, when Islamists and the Left came together to burn the country. While violence brewed in West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi, Sonia Gandhi, the President of Indian National Congress held a ‘Bharat Bachao’ rally in which, among other …

Supreme Court on Shaheen Bagh protest: Public spaces cannot be occupied 'indefinitely', says apex court
4 years, 3 months ago

Supreme Court on Shaheen Bagh protest: Public spaces cannot be occupied 'indefinitely', says apex court

Firstpost  

A three-judge bench observed that while dissent and democracy go hand in hand, protests must be carried out in the designated areas The Supreme Court on Wednesday said that occupying public places like Shaheen Bagh for protests is not acceptable and such a space cannot be occupied “indefinitely”. A bench comprising Justices SK Kaul, Krishna Murari, and Hrishikesh Roy held …

Delhi Police File Case Against Those Protesting at Jantar Mantar against Hathras Gang-rape Case
4 years, 3 months ago

Delhi Police File Case Against Those Protesting at Jantar Mantar against Hathras Gang-rape Case

News 18  

The Delhi police registered a case against the protesters at Jantar Mantar who gathered on Friday evening demanding harsh punishment for the accused in Hathras gang rape case. 135/2020 u/s 188 IPC, 3 Epidemic Act & 51 Disaster Management Act, has been registered against them at Parliament Street police station,” said DCP New Delhi, Eish Singhal. The Delhi Chief Minister …

How the Delhi riots probe polarised society | Analysis
4 years, 3 months ago

How the Delhi riots probe polarised society | Analysis

Hindustan Times  

The dreary evening of February 23 saw parts of North-East Delhi gripped by a communal frenzy, reminiscent of the carnage during the days of Partition. It was a mammoth exercise to conduct a probe in the riots which claimed 53 lives and injured 583 others Six months after the incident, the probe into the riots has come under public scrutiny. …

Shaheen Bagh 'Dadi' Among Time's 100 Influential People. Here's Why She's a 'Symbol of Resistance'
4 years, 3 months ago

Shaheen Bagh 'Dadi' Among Time's 100 Influential People. Here's Why She's a 'Symbol of Resistance'

News 18  

The octogenarian Bilkis is one of the five Indians who made it to the list of 100 most influential people for the year 2020 in the Time magazine. Bilkis Bano was among several other elderly women of Shaheen Bagh, who came to be known as Dadis of Shaheen Bagh as they emerged as a strong voice of the anti- Citizenship …

Delhi Riots ‘Conspiracy’ Charge Sheet: Everything You Need to Know
4 years, 3 months ago

Delhi Riots ‘Conspiracy’ Charge Sheet: Everything You Need to Know

The Quint  

On the afternoon, Sharjeel Imam, along with Arshad Warsi from SOJ and others, started moving towards establishing a 24x7 protest, or a chakka jam, at Shaheen Bagh. This part of the charge sheet is interesting, it alleges that "local residents of Shaheen Bagh were initially against the protest but Sharjeel Imam threatened them with dire consequences if they did not …

Shaheen Bagh 'dadi' Bilkis named in Time Magazine's list of 100 Most Influential People
4 years, 3 months ago

Shaheen Bagh 'dadi' Bilkis named in Time Magazine's list of 100 Most Influential People

India Today  

Bilkis, an 82-year-old woman who was at the forefront of the Shaheen Bagh protests in Delhi against the Citizenship Amendment Act, has been named by the Time Magazine in its list of ‘100 Most Influential People of 2020’. Bilkis, one of the ‘dadis’ of Shaheen Bagh, became the face of the Shaheen Bagh anti-CAA protests that went on to trigger …

India’s police ‘complicit’ in anti-Muslim riots, alleges Amnesty
4 years, 4 months ago

India’s police ‘complicit’ in anti-Muslim riots, alleges Amnesty

Al Jazeera  

The rights group calls on the gov’t to investigate the alleged human rights violations committed by the police. Police in Delhi were “complicit and an active participant” in the February violence in which 53 people, mostly Muslims, were killed, according to an investigation by Amnesty International India. “The Delhi police personnel were complicit and an active participant in the violence …

Shaheen Bagh protests \'scripted\' by BJP for electoral gains, says AAP
4 years, 4 months ago

Shaheen Bagh protests \'scripted\' by BJP for electoral gains, says AAP

Deccan Chronicle  

A day after several activists who were part of the Shaheen Bagh protest joined the BJP, the Aam Aadmi Party claimed the agitation was “scripted” by the saffron party for electoral gains in the Delhi Assembly elections. The AAP’s allegation comes a day after several Muslims from Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh area, the epicentre of the protests against the Citizenship Amendment …

Shaheen Bagh 'activist' Shahzad Ali joins BJP
4 years, 4 months ago

Shaheen Bagh 'activist' Shahzad Ali joins BJP

India TV News  

Ulema Council Secretary Shahzad Ali, who reportedly played a role in the Shaheen Bagh protest that started last winter against the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday along with other members from the minority community. Delhi BJP's minority face Nikhat Abbas, who was present on the occasion, said: "The BJP carries all religions and castes …

Delhi Riots: Funds received from the UK, Oman and UAE in January, Police continues to probe foreign funding link
4 years, 6 months ago

Delhi Riots: Funds received from the UK, Oman and UAE in January, Police continues to probe foreign funding link

Op India  

In a significant development, sleuths of Delhi Police have made a major revelation about the alleged foreign funding into the violent anti-Hindu riots that rocked the national capital in the last week of February. The police team were startled to find that the register retrieved from Haider carried the details of the alleged funding received for instigating the riots in …

Police identify incidents that ‘led’ to north-east Delhi riots
4 years, 7 months ago

Police identify incidents that ‘led’ to north-east Delhi riots

The Hindu  

In the chargesheet submitted in the IB staffer Ankit Sharma murder case, the police have also mentioned the chronology of events that led to the riots in north-east Delhi in February this year. The document then mentions incidents of violence around New Friends Colony on December 15 when some current and former JMI students, and people having allegiance to political …

Delhi Police increases security at Shaheen Bagh, Jamia Nagar amid reports of protests being resumed
4 years, 7 months ago

Delhi Police increases security at Shaheen Bagh, Jamia Nagar amid reports of protests being resumed

Op India  

A contingent of Delhi Police has been deployed at New Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh area after there were reports that anti-CAA lobby was planning to resume its protests from Wednesday, June 3, 2020 demanding scraping of Citizenship Amendment Act and Unlawful Activities Act. Nationwide protests planned from June 3 According to the reports, a force of 100 policemen have been deployed …

Delhi Riots: Police arrests 2 Pinjra Tod women activists for organising anti-CAA protest in Jaffrabad
4 years, 7 months ago

Delhi Riots: Police arrests 2 Pinjra Tod women activists for organising anti-CAA protest in Jaffrabad

India Today  

Two members of the 'Pinjra Tod', a women rights group in Delhi, have been arrested in connection with the North East Delhi riots that took place earlier this year over the Citizenship Amendment Act. Delhi Police has arrested Natasha and Devangana, two women associated with Pinjra Tod. Both women have been arrested by the North East District Police and will …

Drop ‘False Cases’ Against Women CAA Protesters, Demand Feminists
4 years, 8 months ago

Drop ‘False Cases’ Against Women CAA Protesters, Demand Feminists

The Quint  

Around 1,100 feminists from all over India issued a solidarity statement on Sunday, 3 May, condemning what they called was the targeted crackdown on Muslims and women activists in Delhi, who were at the forefront of the peaceful protests against the controversial Citizenship Act earlier this year. The signatories including well-known women rights activists like Medha Patkar, Farah Naqvi, Aruna …

India: Charged with anti-terror law, pregnant woman sent to jail
4 years, 8 months ago

India: Charged with anti-terror law, pregnant woman sent to jail

Al Jazeera  

Safoora Zargar who was behind anti-CAA protests stands accused of being a key ‘conspirator’ in the February Delhi riots. Safoora Zargar, a research scholar from Jamia Millia Islamia university, spent her first day of Ramadan in the high-security Tihar jail in the Indian capital, New Delhi. The 27-year old, in the second trimester of her first pregnancy, was arrested on …

Police sends notice to members of Jamia Coordination Committee, NSUI for their role in Delhi's anti-Hindu riots
4 years, 8 months ago

Police sends notice to members of Jamia Coordination Committee, NSUI for their role in Delhi's anti-Hindu riots

Op India  

Delhi Police special cell has issued notice to 50 members of the Jamia coordination committee for their alleged connection with rioting and criminal conspiracy pertaining to anti-Hindu riots in north-east Delhi that had claimed the lives of 53 people and had left, over 400 injured, reports The New Indian Express. The notice served by Delhi police special cell The notice …

Amit Shah directs police to pick up Delhi Anti-Hindu riots probe
4 years, 8 months ago

Amit Shah directs police to pick up Delhi Anti-Hindu riots probe

Op India  

The probe into the deadly Delhi anti-Hindu riots, which raged on in the last week of February this year by Islamist mobs, leaving at least 50 people dead, including Delhi Police Constable Ratan Lal, and IB staffer Ankit Sharma, had slowed down ever since the Coronavirus Pandemic hit India and the lockdown was announced last month by the Modi government. …

Shaheen Bagh Protests: 'Muslim Women Don't Need Saviours, They Were Saviours of the Idea of India'
4 years, 9 months ago

Shaheen Bagh Protests: 'Muslim Women Don't Need Saviours, They Were Saviours of the Idea of India'

News 18  

Zoya Hasan is Professor Emerita, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Do you think Shaheen Bagh protests have changed the way the world will look at Indian Muslim women? 2) What is going to be the significance of the protests by Indian Muslim women at Shaheen Bagh and elsewhere across India? 8) After attaining this stature of national recognition, what are going to …

Shaheen Bagh agitators write to Supreme Court, seek probe into ‘forcible removal and destruction’ of protest site
4 years, 9 months ago

Shaheen Bagh agitators write to Supreme Court, seek probe into ‘forcible removal and destruction’ of protest site

Firstpost  

Shaheen Bagh protestors on Wednesday wrote a letter to the Supreme Court seeking an investigation into alleged forcible removal and destruction of their protest site on 24 March and have sought a direction from the apex court for citizens’ rights. New Delhi: Shaheen Bagh protestors on Wednesday wrote a letter to the Supreme Court seeking an investigation into alleged “forcible …

Shaheen Bagh Protesters Complain To SC About Police Action; Say 'Dismantling Of Structures Reeks Of Strong Vendetta'
4 years, 9 months ago

Shaheen Bagh Protesters Complain To SC About Police Action; Say 'Dismantling Of Structures Reeks Of Strong Vendetta'

Live Law  

Taking strong objection to the action of Delhi police in forcibly removing the structures at the protest site at Shaheen Bagh, the protesters have submitted a statement before the Supreme Court through the court-appointed interlocutors.The protesters state that the police action carried out on Wednesday morning citing lockdown measures due to COVID-19 was highly unwarranted, as they. Taking strong objection …

How Shaheen Bagh lost the plot | HT Editorial
4 years, 9 months ago

How Shaheen Bagh lost the plot | HT Editorial

Hindustan Times  

The Delhi Police cleared Shaheen Bagh of protesters on Tuesday. Since mid-December, those opposed to the Citizenship Act and a possible National Register of Citizens congregated at Shaheen Bagh — an otherwise inconspicuous corner in south Delhi. Shaheen Bagh was distinctive — the protest was led by Muslim women; it became a model for movements elsewhere in the country; it …

COVID-19 Pandemic Must Receive Priority, Says SC Appointed Interlocutors After Clearance Of Shaheen Bagh Protest Site
4 years, 9 months ago

COVID-19 Pandemic Must Receive Priority, Says SC Appointed Interlocutors After Clearance Of Shaheen Bagh Protest Site

Live Law  

Following the clearance of Shaheen Bagh protest site by police on Tuesday morning in view of the lockdown imposed in Delhi due to COVID19 pandemic, Senior Advocate Sanjay Hegde and Advocate Sadhana Ramachandran - who were appointed by the Supreme Court as interlocutors in the issue- released a statement.Hegde and Ramachandran urged everyone to the see the issue not as …

Coronavirus lockdown: Delhi police clears Shaheen Bagh protest area
4 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus lockdown: Delhi police clears Shaheen Bagh protest area

Op India  

The Shaheen Bagh drama has finally come to an end after the Delhi Police cleared the area. DCP of South East Delhi said, “People at the protest site in Shaheen Bagh were requested today to clear the site as lockdown has been imposed. Protest site has been cleared.Some protestors have been detained https://t.co/lVgXzL9WD6 pic.twitter.com/0uBdwGHKMw — ANI March 24, 2020 A …

Coronavirus Outbreak: Police remove anti-CAA protestors from Shaheen Bagh as Delhi govt imposes lockdown to curb COVID-19 spread
4 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus Outbreak: Police remove anti-CAA protestors from Shaheen Bagh as Delhi govt imposes lockdown to curb COVID-19 spread

Firstpost  

Police cleared the Shaheen Bagh protest site on Tuesday as a lockdown was imposed in Delhi amid the coronavirus outbreak Police cleared the Shaheen Bagh protest site on Tuesday as a lockdown was imposed in Delhi amid the coronavirus outbreak. A few women had continued the protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act at Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh on Monday despite a …

Coronavirus: Shaheen Bagh protests in Delhi suspended in wake of lockdown orders
4 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus: Shaheen Bagh protests in Delhi suspended in wake of lockdown orders

India TV News  

The anti-CAA protestors in Delhi's Shaheen Bagh were requested by Delhi Police on Tuesday to clear the site as lockdown has been imposed in the wake of coronavirus spread. Police also detained some agitators in Shaheen Bagh who refused to vacate the site for unlawful assembly amid the lockdown orders. The police personnel requested them to vacate the site as …

Shaheen Bagh protest site cleared by police as Delhi goes under coronavirus lockdown
4 years, 9 months ago

Shaheen Bagh protest site cleared by police as Delhi goes under coronavirus lockdown

India Today  

The Shaheen Bagh protest site, where hundreds of women were stationed for several months for the agitation against Citizenship Amendment Act, has been cleared by Delhi Police personnel. #WATCH Delhi Police clears the protest site in Shaheen Bagh area, amid complete lockdown in the national capital, in wake of #Coronavirus pic.twitter.com/N6MGLTLs5Z ANI March 24, 2020 Before the evacuation Delhi Police …

Coronavirus crisis: Anti-CAA protest in Nizamuddin called off, Shaheen Bagh protestors stay put
4 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus crisis: Anti-CAA protest in Nizamuddin called off, Shaheen Bagh protestors stay put

India TV News  

A citizenship law protest in Delhi’s Nizamuddin was on Sunday called off, in the wake of the rising cases of coronavirus across the country and Delhi’s government’s decision to put the city in lockdown earlier in the day. While shutters have come down on the protest at Nizamuddin, the demonstration against the Citizenship Amendment Act continues at Shaheen Bagh, which …

As India shuts down for 'Janta Curfew', petrol bomb hurled near Delhi's Shaheen Bagh; cops say no one injured, situation under control
4 years, 9 months ago

As India shuts down for 'Janta Curfew', petrol bomb hurled near Delhi's Shaheen Bagh; cops say no one injured, situation under control

Firstpost  

The development comes in the backdrop of the nationwide “Janta Curfew,” which is being observed on Prime Minister Modi’s appeal. As the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protests continue at Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh amid the backdrop of the nationwide “Janta Curfew” being observed on an appeal from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a petrol bomb was hurled near the site on Sunday morning, …

Complaint filed against Shaheen Bagh Protesters in wake of Covid19 scare
4 years, 9 months ago

Complaint filed against Shaheen Bagh Protesters in wake of Covid19 scare

Op India  

In an important development, 4 public-spirited persons — three lawyers and a law student have lodged a complaint against the indefinite protests staged at Shaheen Bagh to resist the new citizenship law. One of the complainants shared a copy of the complaint on Twitter Shaheen Bagh might soon become a hotbed for CoVID-19 with news emerging that one suspected patient …

PIL filed in SC seeking removal of anti-CAA protesters at Shaheen Bagh in view of health hazards posed by novel coronavirus
4 years, 9 months ago

PIL filed in SC seeking removal of anti-CAA protesters at Shaheen Bagh in view of health hazards posed by novel coronavirus

Firstpost  

Hundreds of demonstrators at Shaheen Bagh in Delhi have been agitating since 15 December last year against the CAA, NRC and NPR New Delhi: A new public interest litigation was filed on Thursday in the Supreme Court seeking directions for immediate removal or dispersal of mass gathering at Shaheen Bagh in the National Capital in view of the health hazards …

Coronavirus outbreak: Shaheen Bagh protesters must comply with ban on gatherings of over 50 people, says Arvind Kejriwal
4 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus outbreak: Shaheen Bagh protesters must comply with ban on gatherings of over 50 people, says Arvind Kejriwal

Firstpost  

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday announced that any gatherings, whether religious, family, social, political or cultural, of over 50 people will not be allowed in the National Capital till 31 March in view of the coronavirus outbreak. New Delhi: Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday announced that any gatherings, whether religious, family, social, political or cultural, of …

Delhi riots took place because of radicalisation of Muslims over time: Fact-finding report
4 years, 9 months ago

Delhi riots took place because of radicalisation of Muslims over time: Fact-finding report

Op India  

The Group of Intellectuals and Academicians have reportedly submitted a report to the Ministry of Home Affairs on the recent anti-Hindu riots in national capital. As per reports, the 51-pages long report titled ‘The Shaheen Bagh Model in Northeast Delhi: From Dharna to Danga’, the riots were a preplanned conspiracy. The report further states that the riots took place because …

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