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NEW DELHI: A Rouse Avenue Court on Monday sets aside order directing Delhi Police to investigate Kapil Mishra‘s role in the 2020 Delhi riots.The earlier order by the Magistrate court had sought additional investigation into Mishra’s involvement in the case, according to news agency ANI. Both Mishra and the Delhi Police had challenged that order…
AHMEDABAD: ‘Hard videographic proof’ of three persons – one allegedly wielding an AK-47 – being involved in the 2002 communal riots withered away during trial, with the videographer recanting his statement and the tape disappearing. An Ahmedabad court has finally acquitted the three accused.The trio was booked on a complaint filed by a videographer, Satish…
NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police on Thursday opposed the bail pleas of activists Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam and others in the Supreme Court in the UAPA case linked to the alleged conspiracy behind the February 2020 Delhi riots, claiming they conspired to strike at the country’s sovereignty and integrity through a “regime change operation” disguised…
NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police has opposed the bail plea of Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam and others in the UAPA case linked to “larger conspiracy” behind the 2020 north-east Delhi riots. In an affidavit to the Supreme Court on Thursday, it said that the “materials and chats” on record referring to Donald Trump indicated that…
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee (File photo) NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) criticised West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee for opposing the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the state, which will go to the polls next year.In the heated political atmosphere of West Bengal, the SIR has futher intensified…
Former JNU student and activist Umar Khalid was taken into custody by police at Red Fort in New Delhi (2020) (Image Credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday issued notices on the bail pleas of Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam, Meeran Haider, Gulfisha Fatima, and Shifa Ur Rehman in connection with the larger conspiracy…
Former JNU student and activist Umar Khalid addresses during a protest against the proposed fee hike in Jawaharlal Nehru University, in New Delhi, on November 23, 2019. (Times Content Photo/ TOI Archives) NEW DELHI: Amnesty International and six other global human rights organisations released a joint statement on Friday calling on the central govt to…
