-ThePrint.in Several activists and civil servants have raised concerns about Delhi Police's investigation into February riots, calling it 'biased'. Something similar happened in 1984 as well. New Delhi: Activists, politicians, former IPS officers and many other civil servants have raised concerns about the Delhi Police probe into the February riots that led to the deaths of over 50 people. Nine former IPS officers even wrote to Delhi Police Commissioner S.N. Shrivastava asking him...
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Delhi Riots: 270 Eminent Citizens Write to CM Kejriwal Urging Probe by Retired Judge
-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...
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...
More »Delhi violence: UN human rights chief expresses ‘great concern’ about CAA, police inaction
-Scroll.in Michelle Bachelet also said that in Jammu and Kashmir, 800 people still remain under detention, following the abrogation of the region’s special status. United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Thursday expressed “great concern” over the Citizenship Amendment Act and reports of police inaction during the violence in Delhi. At least 37 people have been killed so far in violence between supporters and opponents of the Act. Addressing the...
More »Delhi Police chief gets powers to detain under NSA, cops say it's nothing new -Ananya Bhardwaj and Debayan Roy
-ThePrint.in Under NSA, a person need not be informed of charges for 10 days, can be detained without charge for up to 12 months and doesn’t get a lawyer. New Delhi: The Lieutenant Governor of Delhi late Friday passed an order conferring the Commissioner of Police with the power to detain under the draconian National Security Act (NSA) for a period of three months — between 19 January and 18 April. This...
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