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Shabeena Amir in northeast Delhi’s Old Mustafabad was 4 months pregnant with her third child, as her husband Amir Ali's corpse was raised from the drainage. They were eagerly waiting for their newborn along with their two children, Alfisha who is 5, and 3-year-old Alisha.

The Caravan magazine reporter Ahan Penkar was assaulted by a police officer and then detained while he was reporting on the rape and murder of a 14-year-old Dalit girl in the north Delhi on Friday.

Condemning the arrests of journalists and activists under draconian UAPA for demanding justice in the case of the brutal gangrape of the Dalit woman in Hathras, the Campaign Against State Repression demands the withdrawal of the case against them, the immediate release of Atikur Rahman, national treasurer of Campus Front of India (CFI), Masud Khan, CFI Delhi general secretary and senior journalist Siddique Kappan, secretary of Kerala Union of Working Journalists (KUWJ) Delhi unit and Alam, the car driver and action against the perpetrators of the horrific rape.

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.

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.

Delhi High Court has restrained Delhi Police from giving any further media statements about allegations against Pinjra Tod activist Devangana Kalita till the framing of charges against her and commencement of trial on Monday.