Riots erupted in northeast Delhi on 23 February 2020. More than 700 FIRs have been registered & over 200 people arrested by the Delhi Police for their alleged role in the violence.
Commissioner S N Shrivastava said 231 accused were arrested on the basis of CCTV footage, 137 identified through Facial Recognition System & 94 through driving license photographs.
On 25 February last year, rioters allegedly broke into Madina Masjid & set two LPG cylinders on fire causing an explosion. The next day, a saffron flag was hoisted on the mosque.
The Delhi court disagreed with Devangana Kalita and Natasha Narwal's lawyer that their offence was not covered under the definition of terror as outlined under the UAPA.
Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat in his order passed Thursday said the allegations against Devangana Kalita in the northeast Delhi riots case prima facie seem to be true.
A court gave bail to a Muslim man last month on the ground he couldn’t have been part of an ‘unlawful assembly’ that mostly consisted Hindus and killed a Muslim in a riots case.
For all their colonial underpinnings, postcards from Hyderabad also inadvertently preserve a trace of local memory: a glimpse of a street, a face, a forgotten name.
Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.
The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
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