Topic: Delhi Police

Condemning the arrest of former JNU student leader and United Against Hate activist Umar Khalid by the Delhi Police, the Campaign Against State Repression (CASR) demands his release as well as an immediate cessation of the relentless harassment of activists and intellectuals in the name of investigation.

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.

"Today I stand completely shattered, broken, helpless and tired," Kamra has penned down an emotional note hours after Delhi Police arrested Umar Khalid under draconian UAPA in connection with the northeast Delhi violence conspiracy case.

Hours after Delhi Police arrested former Jawaharlal Nehru University student leader and United Against Hate activist Umar Khalid in connection with the northeast Delhi violence conspiracy case, a group of prominent activists in the country condemned the arrest and demanded the rights activist's immediate release.

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.

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