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Topic2020 Delhi riots

Topic: 2020 Delhi riots

Delhi riots accused Sharjeel Imam gets 10-day bail to attend brother’s wedding, meet ailing mother

The court has directed that during this period from 20 March to 30 March, Imam can interact only with family members, relatives & friends, and can't use social media or contact media.

Delhi riots: CBI charges 2 cops in death of Muslim man forced to sing national anthem; no murder charge

During the 2020 riots, a viral video showed injured men lying on a roadside, beaten and forced to chant the national anthem. Faizan, among them, died days later.

‘Don’t pin all hopes on institutions’—at JLF 2026 debate of lawyers

In a session titled 'The Measure of Justice' at JLF 2026, lawyers Ashwani Kumar and Vrinda Grover and US judge Ketu Shah discussed the Indian constitutional, moral and legal crises.

SC refuses 2 weeks for Delhi Police response to bail for 2020 riots conspiracy accused, gives 3 days

‘We have given you enough time’, the Supreme Court bench said, adding that accused had already been in jail for 5 years.

Delhi riots conspiracy case trial is caught in a loop—500+ dates, 160+ adjournments and counting

New Delhi: Five years ago, the national capital witnessed one of the deadliest Hindu-Muslim riots in post-Partition history. For three days, northeast Delhi burned...

Speedy trial a right but delay by accused: What HC said denying Tasleem Ahmed bail in 2020 riots case

Ahmed was arrested on 19 June, 2020, and has been in custody without significant progress in trial. He cited violation of constitutional right to liberty for seeking bail.

Why Delhi HC rejected bail pleas of Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam & 7 others in 2020 riots case

A hurried trial would be detrimental to the rights of both the appellants and the state, the bench of Justices Navin Chawla and Shalinder Kaur said.

Delhi HC rejects bail pleas of Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam & 7 others in 2020 Delhi riots case

A division bench of Justices Navin Chawla and Shalinder Kaur had reserved its verdict on 9 July after hearing the batch of petitions, which had been pending in HC since 2022.

Delhi riots acquittals: Hostile witnesses, unanswered questions & a ‘Kattar Hindu Ekta’ WhatsApp group

3 of the 9 murder cases involve the same set of accused. In these, all 12 Hindu men were acquitted by a Delhi court. Judgments in the remaining 6 cases are awaited.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.