Saturday, April 20, 2024

Topic: Anti-Muslim Pogrom Delhi 2020

Delhi Police’s actions are a direct outcome of politics of BJP’s top leadership: Yechury

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.

Govt will never succeed in silencing us: Harsh Mander on Delhi violence case

But the actual conspiracy was a very different one from the one which Delhi Police is propagating.

Delhi pogrom: Police negates Tahir Hussain’s confession ran by media

In response to a Right to Information query filed by activist Nilim Dutta, chairman of the Unified People’s Movement, Delhi Police Crime Branch said "no confession by Tahir Hussain has been recorded under Section 164 CrPC."

Delhi police was complicit and active participant in northeast Delhi anti-Muslim pogrom: Amnesty

The Delhi police personnel were complicit and an active participant in the violence that took place in Delhi in February 2020, yet in the last six months not a single investigation has been opened into the human rights violations committed by the Delhi police – before, during and after the violence, said Amnesty International India

Bloomsbury withdraws book on Delhi pogrom launched by hate peddlers including Kapil Mishra

Bloomsbury Books India announced that it is withdrawing an upcoming book on the Delhi anti-Muslim violence that has courted controversy, especially after it was announced that BJP leader and hate peddler Kapil Mishra who had made an incendiary speech targeting anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protesters before the anti-Muslim violence broke out in North East Delhi, would be the guest of honour at the book launch.

Hindu mob assault ‘The Caravan’ reporters, sexually harras woman journalist in northeast Delhi

Three journalists including a female journalist from The Caravan were physically manhandled, sexually abused and received death threats by a Hindu mob in North East Delhi including local leaders of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday while they were covering a story about an anti-Muslim atmosphere that broke out in the area on the night of August 5, following the foundation-laying ceremony of the Ram temple in Ayodhya