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Friday
September 2023
Friday
September 2023
The Delhi government has allowed police to prosecute former Jawaharlal Nehru University Student’s Union President, Kanhaiya Kumar as well as two others for a sedition case dating back to 2016. Earlier this year the police had filed a charge sheet against Kumar and former JNU students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya. Police have said that the three were leading a procession that was raising slogans against India at an event in the campus on February 9, 2016. All the accused will now face trial for the charges against them.
New Delhi,: Ahead of the Friday prayers, security has been increased in the violence affected areas of northeast Delhi. The Delhi Police, according to sources, have made a list of the mosques where the prayers are going to be held and accordingly additional police and paramilitary forces have been deployed. The police is also continuously interacting with the community leaders, and have identified elements, which can create trouble in the areas, as per a police source. Delhi Police, which has been criticised for failing to control the violence, is now taking all precautionary measures to prevent the recurrence of any trouble in the area. Not taking any chance, crime branch officials too have been deployed to maintain a vigil. IANS team found crime branch inspector Vinay Tyagi deployed in Mustafabad area on Thursday. Rajan Bhagat, DCP Crime told IANS on Friday: "We are patrolling each street in the area for two main reasons. One is that we want to make sure that no family is stuck in fear in any house and second is to prevent people from assembling and rumour mongering. We want to remove the fear feeling from people's hearts. They should feel that there is nothing to fear about now." source:ians
Normalcy seems to be returning in Delhi after days of violence over the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) marked certain areas in the national capital, especially in the northeast district.A positive image of fraternity and social harmony, much in need, has also been witnessed in Delhi during these difficult times. Locals were seen during Thursday distributing food and necessary supplies to those who were injured in the riots and now lay recovering at the national capital's Guru Teg Bahadur (GTB) hospital. The Delhi Police have made a fresh appeal to the people, asking them to come forward and make statements about the violence that has occurred in recent days and share relevant pictures and video footage with the cops. Two Special Investigation Teams (SIT) have been constituted under the Crime Branch, to review the situation and investigate the Delhi Riots.
The Kerala High Court on Thursday stayed the handing of an award by the Guruvayoor Devasom Board (GDB) to the Chief Minister's Press Adviser Prabha Varma for his magnum opus 'Shyama Madhavam'. ' Shyama Madhavam ' is a verse novel that revolves around Lord Krishna and the lives of those who come across him during his earthly sojourn, which the poet says is not as many believe, a series of ecstasies but agonies.The GDB, which manages Guruvayoor's famous Sree Krishna Temple, was to confer on Friday the Poonthanam Jnanappana award. The court said that the cultural programme associated with the award ceremony can however be held.
BY SANJIV KUMAR SINGH CHAUHAN New Delhi: A day after the Delhi High Court talked tough on alleged inaction of security forces during violence in northeast parts of the national capital, Delhi Police set up special teams that were conducting raids on Thursday in the NCR-Delhi to arrest the rioters. Till now, around 250 persons were rounded up, but many were sent back home as their involvement in rioting was not found. Around 100 persons still in police custody had provided useful information on those involved in violence and arson and were absconding. A DCP-rank officer said that situation in the northeast Delhi had improved between Tuesday night and Wednesday and no untoward incident had been reported ever since. This had enabled authorities to spare police officials to conduct raids on Thursday to arrest the suspected rioters. These teams comprises officers and jawans of police stations concerned, apart from those from the Special Cell and Crime Branch. "Though teams are conducting raids to catch hold of all those involved in arson and looting, we are in particular looking for an area councillor who is absconding ever since his role in the violence came to light," an Additional Commissioner of Police, who wished not to be named, told IANS. An Assistant Commissioner of Police posted in northeast Delhi said that so far the death toll was over 30 in Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital and Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital and that the district police was busy getting the post-mortems on the bodies conducted and completing other formalities. An officer in the rank of Joint Commissioner of Police said they were raiding the possible hideouts of Shahrukh, who was caught on camera while brandishing a firearm and pressing it to the chest of a security personnel. He had also allegedly fired several rounds in the air. A manhunt was also launched to arrest those responsible for the killing of Intelligence Bureau official Ankit Sharma, whose body was fished out from the Chandbagh drain. Ankit's father Ravinder Kumar Sharma had allegedly named the absconding councillor as one of the rioters responsible for his son's murder. Several people living in violence-hit areas told the visiting IANS team on Thursday that police was otherwise making excuses of getting busy in maintaining peace in the affected areas but the promptness it was now showing had come only after the High Court's tough stand. source:ians
New Delhi: A delegation from the Congress headed by interim party chief Sonia Gandhi met with President Ram Nath Kovind and delivered a memorandum on the violence in Delhi. The party urged the President should intervene in the matter and sought the removal of Home Minister Amit Shah. The Congress delegation to the President said that he should direct the government, both central and the state, to act.
Forty-seven-year-old Jolly Thomas, who had eliminated six people in her family for several years, attempted suicide by cutting off her right wrists early on Thursday and was quickly rushed to the hospital of Medical College, here, police say. Jolly, who had been housed in the Kozhikode District Jail, first bit her wrists and then rubbed it against the tiles and wounded herself, according to a statement given to the hospital police. The hospital authorities indicate that a surgery is needed. A police probe has started.
