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In today’s featured cartoon, R Prasad takes a dig at Delhi Police naming CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury in their investigation into the February communal riots that broke out in the national capital’s northeast district.
Mahamud too illustrates the Delhi Police’s process of investigating the Delhi riots, which led them to arrest activist and former JNU student leader Umar Khalid under the stringent UAPA.
Sandeep Adhwaryu took a jab as well at the Delhi Police, whose headquarters has a mural of Mahatma Gandhi, the champion of civil disobedience.
Kirtish Bhatt pokes fun at the media’s dogged pursuit of, and audiences lapping up, every bit of news related to Rhea Chakraborty, Sushant Singh Rajput and Kangana Ranaut while ignoring the rising Covid cases in the country.
EP Unny on the news about China’s surveillance of India and how the resources would have been better spent in ‘surveying’ Covid-19 and its spread.