-Newslaundry.com The cops used a report aired on Ravish Kumar’s show to prop up its theory about Shahid Alam's killing. The Delhi High Court cited the report to disprove it. On February 19, the Delhi High Court granted bail to three men accused of murdering Shahid Alam during the communal carnage in Delhi’s northeast last February. In a chargesheet filed in June, the Delhi police had claimed that Shahid, 25, a rickshaw driver...
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Riots case: HC rebukes police for arresting 3 men with ‘no evidence’ -Soibam Rocky Singh
-The Hindu ‘Hard to believe accused used riots to cause death of man from own community’ In a scathing remark over the way a north-east Delhi Riots case has been investigated, the High Court on Friday rebuked Delhi Police for arresting three men from the minority community and objecting to their bail with “no evidence whatsoever, either direct or circumstantial or forensic”. The case relates to the arrest of three men — Junaid,...
More »Face recognition software used in 137 of 1,800 arrests in Northeast Delhi Riots, says Police -Jignasa Sinha
-The Indian Express A total 231 of the 1,818 arrests so far had been made possible using the latest technological tools, Police Commissioner S N Shrivastava said. More than a hundred individuals arrested in connection with last year’s riots in Northeast Delhi were identified by a facial recognition system (FRS), the Commissioner of Delhi Police said on Friday. A total 231 of the 1,818 arrests so far had been made possible using...
More »Task cut out for riots claims commission: 2,500 forms to be reassessed -Sourav Roy Barman
-The Indian Express On January 11, the Delhi Home Department notified the appointment of five loss assessors, with L-G Anil Baijal's approval — nearly nine months after the recommendation to appoint assessors were made. Nearly a year after the Northeast Delhi Riots, the relief claims commission is faced with the daunting task of evaluating over 2,500 applications disputing the compensation granted to them by the Delhi government, The Indian Express has learnt. While...
More »Beating down critical journalism, creative freedom -Sukumar Muralidharan
-The Hindu The curious deference of the judiciary is part of the precariousness of the rights to freedom in India today Rioting in India’s capital city on a day reserved for the celebration of the Republic, was a new low in unravelling political concord. Within days of that trauma, points of entry into Delhi were barricaded with layers of concrete and steel, interwoven with vicious spools of concertina wire. Some locations had...
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