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Wednesday, September 3, 2025
TopicJantar Mantar

Topic: Jantar Mantar

Delhi HC grants bail to organiser of Jantar Mantar event where communal slogans were raised

Preet Singh, who was remanded to judicial custody on 10 August, is accused of inciting people to propagate hate against a particular religion at a rally in Delhi on 8 August.

Demand for ‘Hindu Rashtra’ doesn’t promote enmity between religions, hate speech accused to HC

Preet Singh, who has been accused of 'raising' anti-Muslim slogans at Jantar Mantar, told Delhi High Court that he won't press for bail if the court held a contrary opinion.

Delhi HC denies interim protection to Hindu Raksha Dal chief in Jantar Mantar case

Bhupinder Tomar's counsel submitted that his client was granted interim protection by the trial court and that he was not the one who was shouting the objectionable slogans.

Delhi Police arrests one more accused in anti-Muslim sloganeering case at Jantar Mantar

Police said the accused, Uttam Upadhyaya, was present at Jantar Mantar on 8 August. His arrest took the total number of detentions in the case to eight.

Delhi court denies bail plea to prime accused in Jantar Mantar anti-Muslim sloganeering case

While dismissing bail plea of Hindu Rakshak Dal president Pinky Chaudhary, the court said India is not a Taliban state and rule of law is its sacrosanct governing principle.

Jantar Mantar ‘anti-Muslim’ event was planned for 2020, Covid delayed it: Hindu Army chief

Sushil Tiwari, head of Hindu Army, one of the Right-wing groups that took part in Jantar Mantar event, says over 30 WhatsApp groups were involved, accuses BJP member & SC lawyer Ashwini Upadhyay of 'betrayal'.

Delhi court grants bail to Ashwini Upadhyay arrested in communal sloganeering case

Delhi court metropolitan magistrate granted relief to Ashwini Upadhyay on a bond of Rs 50,000 & said that there was nothing against him in the alleged anti-Muslim sloganeering video.

Students, civil society members protest anti-Muslim sloganeering at Jantar Mantar, detained

Around 100 people had gathered near Jantar Mantar to protest the communal slogans raised at a rally over the weekend but many were detained by police from entering the site.

BJP member, 5 others arrested for ‘anti-Muslim’ sloganeering at Jantar Mantar

Ashwini Upadhyay, a Supreme Court lawyer and former Delhi BJP spokesperson, has been arrested as an organiser of the 8 August event.

‘Anti-Muslim’ slogans raised at Jantar Mantar protest organised by Delhi BJP leader, FIR filed

Delhi Police registers FIR against unknown persons based on videos purportedly shot at protest against 'colonial era laws', organised by Delhi BJP leader Ashwini Upadhyay.

On Camera

On Arundhati Roy, mother-daughter conflicts, and the burden of being a ‘good mother’

When reading the book, one can see Roy’s mother as a 'fascist government' unto herself, the centre of her own cult. In Arundhati’s words, Mary Roy was ‘mother guru’.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

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China flaunted military might & modernisation as it displayed stealth drones, anti-satellite system & cyber warfare contingent during parade to mark victory over Japan in WWII.

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.