Friday, March 29, 2024

Topic: Anti-Muslim Pogrom Delhi 2020

Delhi pogrom and curious case of arrested Muslim youth: Why courts have forgotten ‘Bail is rule, jail is exception’ principle?

The Sessions Court successfully overturned the principle of bail and concluded that “Jail is the Rule, Bail is an Exception”, particularly when the State wants the individuals from the marginalized and vulnerable groups of Indian minorities behind the prisons, as long as the authoritarian State demands.

100 days and counting: Activists demand release of Gulfisha, jailed student in Delhi violence case

Rights activists, academicians, and activists have demanded the immediate release of Gulfisha Fatima, a recent MBA graduate and community organizer from Jaffrabad, arrested for taking part in protests against the new citizenship matrix.

Police took down their pants, pointed genitals at us, and said, ‘take freedom’: Muslim women in northeast Delhi

According to a fact-finding report by the Delhi Minorities Commission (DMC) on violence in northeast Delhi, Delhi Police had sexually assaulted Muslim women who were protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

Delhi pogrom: Letter to President seeks commission of inquiry on police investigation

Group of retired bureaucrats and eminent academicians sign letter to President of India seeking a commission of inquiry into the manner of investigation of...

Police joined Hindu mob in Delhi pogrom, says fact-finding report of Delhi Minorities Commission

Delhi Police allowed Hindu mobs to roam the streets freely to target the Muslim community during the northeast Delhi violence and even joined them in attacking local Muslim residents of the region, a fact-finding report by the Delhi Minorities Commission (DMC) said on Thursday.

Petitioners with ‘undisclosed agenda’: Delhi police while clean chit to Kapil Mishra, Anurag Thakur in Delhi violence

While submitting an affidavit before the Delhi High Court claiming that no evidence has surfaced so far to indicate any role played by BJP leaders Kapil Mishra, Anurag Thakur and Parvesh Verma in either instigating or participating in the northeast Delhi violence, Delhi Police has argued that the use of terms like 'political vendetta', 'state-sponsored pogrom', 'persecution' and 'malicious prosecution' etc. clearly appears to be part of some undisclosed agenda when facts clearly show otherwise and clearly reflect lack of bonafides.