Media reports over the last two weeks about cases related to the February communal violence in North East Delhi make it clear that the Delh...
Media reports over the last two weeks about cases related to the February communal violence in North East Delhi make it clear that the Delhi Police has turned the investigation into a witch hunt. The authorities are targetting Muslims, despite the community being the disproportionate victims of the riots. Activists who supported the community during the riots and the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act that preceded them also being unfairly prosecuted.
The Delhi Police’s mala fide actions include a range of illegalities. On Thursday, The Hindu reported on a 24-year-old man who was severely injured in the violence and lost his vision in both eyes, but had been accused in a case related to the riots. The police claimed the man had confessed to participating in the violence and had named members of the student group Pinjra Tod in his confession statement. As a result, two Pinjra Tod members are now in jail. They have been denied bail as the police booked them in several cases. They have even been booked under the draconian terror law, the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act.
But the man told the newspaper he had no idea who these activists were. He claimed that he had been forced...
