-TheWire.in The signatories have said that Delhi police have botched up the probe to “conceal the role played by BJP leaders in the communal violence”. New Delhi: Nearly 270 prominent citizens of Delhi have urged Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to institute an independent probe under a retired judge into the communal violence in NorthEast Delhi in February this year. Citing six reasons for demanding such a probe, a letter by the citizens...
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Delhi Riots: Does Delhi Police Want To Steer Probe Towards A ‘Particular Direction’? -Shastri Ramachandaran
-Outlook India If Delhi Police has done its investigation without fear or favour, why does it want its own prosecutors? Successive governments in India, unlike in China, have been able to get away with a lot. From the Delhi riots of 1984 and the mass killings of 2002 in Gujarat to periodic communal violence and decades of state violence and repression in Jammu & Kashmir, India has escaped being put in the...
More »Delhi riot ignition finger at Amit Shah, Yogi Adityanath Pheroze L Vincent
-The Telegraph Panel blames speeches by BJP leaders The Delhi Minorities Commission has accused Union home minister Amit Shah, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Adityanath and other BJP politicians of “fanning communal sentiments” through incendiary speeches before the February riots in the capital. It has also alleged that “police were complicit and abetted the attacks” during the riots, which killed 53 people, and arrested victims rather than the people they accused. One of the key...
More »Locust invasions in a number of Indian states have arisen out of climate change induced extreme rainfalls in desert areas
In the midst of COVID-19 lockdown, desert locust swarms have been seen in parts of Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana and Madhya Pradesh in the second half of May 2020. The recent attacks by desert locust swarms have caused massive crop damage, depletion in the stock of cattle fodder and destruction of green vegetation in these states. As on 25th May, 2020, over half of Rajasthan’s 33 districts were...
More »Gurugram Police Asked Manipuri Victim of Racial Attack to 'Compromise': NHRC
-TheWire.in The woman was reportedly referred to as 'corona' and physically assaulted. New Delhi: Taking cognisance of reports which said a woman from the NorthEast was called ‘corona’, subjected to racial abuse and brutally attacked in Faizapur, Gurugram while she was passing through a locality, the National Human Rights Commission has issued a notice to the chief secretary of Haryana and the police commissioner of Gurugram. The Commission said reports noted that a...
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