North India

Arrested student and anti-Citizenship Amendement Act (CAA) activist Gulfisha Fatima said before a Delhi court on Monday that she was being subjected to communal slurs and mental harassment by jail authorities.

The Culture Workers’ Support Trust (CWST), a charitable organization that works among culture workers has condemned the "harassment of members of the creative community" who they said are being targeted for exercising their democratic right to raise their voice against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and "state-sponsored brutality during the anti-CAA protests."

Renowned Political Scientist Paul Brass's book Forms of Collective Violence: Riots, Pogroms, and Genocide in Modern India is presented as evidence by the Delhi Police in its chargesheet filed against JNU Ph.D. scholar Sharjeel Imam who faces charges under draconian UAPA for a speech which he called for a road blockade as a method of protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act CAA.

The trial court in Karkardooma granted bail to Narwal in Jaffrabad riots case. Narwal, however, will not be released from jail as she is yet to secure bail in a case under UAPA.

Congress Party Treasurer and MP Ahmed Patel, CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury, DMK leader & MP Kanimozhi, RJD leader and MP Manoj Jha, and CPI General Secretary D Raja met the President of India Ram Nath Kovin on Thursday and handed over a memorandum raising questions about the role of the police during the northeast Delhi riots, besides expressing their lack of confidence in the probe of the incident.

During the hearing on petitions seeking registration of FIRs and independent inquiry for northeast Delhi violence, Senior Advocate Colin Gonsalves said to the Delhi High Court that delay caused in taking up these matters for arguments is emboldening the police to make illegal arrests.

Those present at the gathering, including Umar Khalid’s mother Sabiha Khanum and arrested United Against Hate activist Khalid Saifi's wife Nargis Saifi, wore masks with faces of arrested student activists.

The Delhi Police has named fifteen people including politicians, rights activists, Jamia Millia Islamia, Jawaharlal Nehru University student leaders and residents of northeast Delhi as accused in charge sheet filed over the violence that took place in national capital in February this year.

9 Retired IPS officers have written an open letter to the Delhi Police Commissioner raising questions about the investigation carried out into the violence in North East Delhi in February called for a fair reinvestigation.

Former Jawaharlal Nehru University student leader and United Against Hate activist Umar Khalid has been arrested by the Delhi Police in connection with the violence in North East Delhi in February, under draconian UAPA.

Delhi Police's "illegitimate, illegal actions are a direct outcome of the politics of BJP’s top leadership," CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury said hours after the Delhi Police has named Yechury, Bhim Army chief Chandrasekhar Azad, Swaraj Abhiyan leader Yogendra Yadav, economist Jayati Ghosh, lawyer Mehmood Pracha, Delhi University professor and activist Apoorvanand and documentary filmmaker Rahul Roy in a supplementary chargesheet filed in connection with its probe into the Northeast Delhi riots in February.

Another heartwrenching incident took place in Panipat, Haryana where a Muslim youth, Akhlaq was brutally beaten up by a group of Hindu men after having found that he was a Muslim.