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Delhi Violence: Court Seeks Police Reply on Pinjra Tod Members' Plea for Monitored Probe

Delhi Violence: Court Seeks Police Reply on Pinjra Tod Members’ Plea for Monitored Probe

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Security personnel walking past Bhagirathi Vihar in northeast Delhi after the riots. (PTI)

Additional Sessions Judge Dharmender Rana directed the investigating officer to file the reply on the plea by July 14.

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Last Updated: July 9, 2020, 10:19 PM IST

A Delhi court Thursday sought reply of the police on an application filed by Pinjra Tod members and JNU…

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Delhi Violence: Court Seeks Police Reply on Pinjra Tod Members' Plea for Monitored Probe

Delhi Violence: Court Seeks Police Reply on Pinjra Tod Members’ Plea for Monitored Probe

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Security personnel walking past Bhagirathi Vihar in northeast Delhi after the riots. (PTI)

Additional Sessions Judge Dharmender Rana directed the investigating officer to file the reply on the plea by July 14.

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Last Updated: July 9, 2020, 10:19 PM IST

A Delhi court Thursday sought reply of the police on an application filed by Pinjra Tod members and JNU…

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[Sep 1 2020] Some good news from India, all within the last day or two

The supreme court blinked; Prashant Bhushan does not have to apologise, go to jail, or lose his license for tweets critical of the Modi govt and calling out an SC judge for riding a BJP member’s Harley Davidson. He has to pay a token Re. 1 fine

The Allahabad high court ordered the release of Dr. Kafeel Khan, a hero who saved many lives in the 2017 UP tragedy when oxygen supply to the BRD Medical College was cut. UP Police arrested him for a speech he gave to students of Aligarh Muslim University for supposedly inciting violence when he was really talking about the communal nature of the NRC exercise and how Indian muslims should band together and resist attempts that pit them against their Hindu brethren. He has been detained for 9 months, missing more than half of his new baby boy’s life in jail 

Another victim of enthusiastic Home ministry crackdowns during this pandemic (when better to arrest civil rights activists than a time where social distancing prevents protesting!!!), Devangana Kalita, member of the feminist student organisation Pinjra Tod, was finally granted bail. She, along with fellow Pinjra Tod activist and student Natasha Narwhal, have been holed up in Tihar jail for the past 90 days on the flimsiest of charges. When questioned by the court, the police literally couldn’t produce the evidence that was the basis for the arrest. This is a continuation of the attempts to paint aggression on JNU campus as having been masterminded by left wing student outfits instead of the right wing student outfit ABVP, and erase the enormous trauma and literal physical harm suffered by these students, absolutely perverse and sick 

A friend pointed out the other day that Wikipedia is doing a tremendous job in keeping the timelines straight and piecing together eyewitness accounts, so if you haven’t done so already, please do read about the 2020 Northeast Delhi riots (and the 2020 attack on JNU!!). The BJP member who incited the riots with his hate speech against the anti-CAA protestors and called on BJP supporters to take matters into their own hands recently attended the launch of a conspiracy theory book that tries to show how the riots were, in fact, anti-Hindu. Bloomsbury was forced to drop the book, and its now being published by a Tamil-Nadu based publisher owned by, surprise surprise, another BJP member. The propaganda just doesn't quit 

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Kalita and Narwal are members of Pinjra Tod (Break the Cage), a feminist collective that campaigns for more freedom and rights for women in university hostels across India. Tanha is a student at New Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia, a university founded by Muslims during India’s freedom movement against the British. Last month, Natasha Narwal, 32, lost her father Mahavir Narwal, a retired professor and activist, to coronavirus. She was granted an interim bail of three weeks to perform her father’s last rites. The three activists were among dozens arrested for protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act.

‘Indian court grants bail to activists arrested over Delhi riots’, Al Jazeera

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Natasha Narwal, Devangana Kalita, Asif Iqbal Tanha Get Bail In Delhi Riots Case

Natasha Narwal, Devangana Kalita, Asif Iqbal Tanha Get Bail In Delhi Riots Case

Delhi Riots: Over 50 people died in the February 2020 violence over the citizenship law (File) New Delhi: JNU students and Pinjra Tod members Natasha Narwal and Devangana Kalita, and Jamia Millia Islamia student Asif Iqbal Tanha will finally walk out of jail after over a year following their arrest under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in connection with a case related to the…

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Delhi riots: Court dismisses bail pleas of Pinjra Tod activist Natasha Narwal in UAPA case

Delhi riots: Court dismisses bail pleas of Pinjra Tod activist Natasha Narwal in UAPA case

New Delhi: A court here on Thursday dismissed the bail plea of JNU student and Pinjra Tod member Natasha Narwal, booked under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in a north east Delhi riots case. Narwal was arrested in the case for allegedly being part of a premeditated conspiracy in the riots. Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat said in a case of conspiracy of such a large…

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The Indian govt wants to create a Hindu rashtra and they are almost there

17 December 2019 

You may have heard that over the past few days, the Delhi police have tear-gassed and lathi-charged students for protesting the Citizenship Amendment Bill. The CAB is an unspeakably cruel bill devoid of any logic, that will threaten the rights and lives of Muslim immigrants, Indian Muslims, along with millions of poor, landless people without the records to prove they are Indian citizens. The BJP is that much closer to realising its Hindutva vision of One State, One Religion. 

(What is the CAB? Why should I care? What is the state of protests? Go through this resource list) 

I’m directing this post at people who live outside of India, since that seems to be the vast majority of the people I interact with on tumblr (if you reside in India are currently unsure what to do and who to talk to, please DM me. Let’s get you to your nearest protest). I know you’re feeling impotent and I can’t change that but I can confirm things that help: 

1/ Spread information, and counter misinformation. We currently lead the world in Internet shutdowns, have been maintaining the longest-running internet shutdown in any democracy in the world in Kashmir (one day of protests in Delhi University led to so much carnage; this has been status quo for Kashmir for >3 months in maybe the most heavily militarised region in the world). Internet shutdowns remain in Assam, Meghalaya, Bengal, and Uttar Pradesh. I don’t know what’s going to happen and I don’t know if its even possible to shut down internet for 1.2 bn people but I have a queasy sense of the lengths this govt. will go to, and they are extreme....all of this is to say that it matters that information is spread fast and widely in a way that gives an unsanitised sense of what is happening on ground 

And yes, it’s basic, but it helps us more than it doesn’t. It helps when John Cusack and Harvard Students publish statements of solidarity that get air time; it helps when people from across the ocean say: I see you, and this is wrong. It helps an ordinary student on the ground, at least a little, from going crazy and thinking these atrocities are invisible 

Check for daily updates from student organising pages like Pinjra Tod and Collective Delhi, student organisers like Umar Khalid and Kawalpreet Kaur, and from news orgs like The Wire, Scroll 

Read longer reportage at sites like Caravan Magazine 

Counter misinformation using Altnews.in

2/ Indians who reside outside of India: talk to your family and be persistent. Between Tulsi Gabbard and Howdy Modi! and pro-CAB rallies near UK parliament and Vote-for-Modi flash mobs in European cities, it’s clearer than ever that the affluent and powerful Hindu-majority Indian diaspora have tied their fate with the BJP and RSS. They help polish the govt.’s image internationally and support them financially. Short of the government nationalising Reliance industries, there may be nothing to convince your parents and aunts and uncles that the Modi regime is fascist....except a war of attrition, waged by you. Talk to your family members 1:1. Read headlines to your mom and dad every day. Send news articles and screenshots to your family Whatsapp group. Be incessant, be annoying, keep at it. Aim to make your family blanch at the mention of BJP and disassociate from Hindutva like Sonal Shah had to.

Something’s got to give, right? I read a story on Facebook the other day about a Hindutva mom who had a change of heart when she saw that the brutalised Jamia Islamia University protesters were the same age as her son. If your family loves you, I’d say it’s incumbent on you to leverage that. If you get one concession from your aunt that this isn’t normal, it matters. If you can make your dad feel an unwanted uncomfortable twinge in his belly when he sees police firing shells at unarmed screaming students, it matters. 

As and when I get reliable links for ways you can contribute financially to the protests/medical aid etc., I will update the post. Thanks for reading. 

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Court Dismisses Bail Plea Of Pinjra Tod Member Devangana Kalita In Delhi Riots Case

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"Not Seen Inciting Violence": JNU Student Gets Bail In Delhi Riots Case

“Not Seen Inciting Violence”: JNU Student Gets Bail In Delhi Riots Case

Delhi Violence: Pinjra Tod member Natasha Narwal faces another charge under the UAPA

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Activist group Pinjra Tod’s member Natasha Narwal has been granted bail in a case linked to the riots in north-east Delhi neighbourhoods this February. Ms Narwal will, however, stay in Delhi’s Tihar Jail as she also faces charges under the stringent Unlawful Activities Prevention Act or UAPA in…

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Court Rejects Bail Plea Of Pinjra Tod Member In Delhi Riots Case

Court Rejects Bail Plea Of Pinjra Tod Member In Delhi Riots Case

A court has rejected the bail plea of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student and Pinjra Tod member Devangana Kalita, charged under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) in a…

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Court Dismisses Bail Plea Of Pinjra Tod Member In Delhi Riots Case The riots had broken out in northeast Delhi on February 24. (File) New Delhi: A Delhi court has dismissed the bail application of Pinjra Tod member and JNU student Devangana Kalita, who has been booked under the stringent anti-terror law, UAPA, in a case related to the communal violence in northeast Delhi in February.

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Pinjra Tod member plea: Show some restraint, Delhi High Court tells police

Pinjra Tod member plea: Show some restraint, Delhi High Court tells police

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The Delhi High Court on Thursday said the Delhi police have to show “some restraint” in regard to the affidavit filed by it in response to a plea by a Pinjra Tod group woman member, who was arrested in connection with the north-east Delhi riots.

Justice Vibhu Bakhru said the allegations in the affidavit were unwarranted in view of the limited scope of the petition, which was to to…

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Tahir Hussain “Planned” Delhi Riots With 2 Pinjra Tod Members, Others: Cops 56 people were killed and property worth crores was destroyed in the northeast Delhi clashes (File)

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Suspended AAP Councillor Tahir Hussain Planned Delhi Riots With 2 Pinjra Tod Members, Others: Cops

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Pinjra Tod Member Natasha Narwal to be Allowed Books of Her Choice in Tihar, Video Meetings With Lawyer

Pinjra Tod Member Natasha Narwal to be Allowed Books of Her Choice in Tihar, Video Meetings With Lawyer

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File photo of Tihar Jail.

Narwal, currently lodged in Tihar Jail along with another JNU student and member of the group, Devangana Kalitha, were arrested by Delhi Police on May 23 in connection with a protest against the Citizenship Act in February.

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Last Updated: June 30, 2020, 12:51 PM IST

Efforts will be made to provide a Pinjra Tod member, arrested in a…

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School Owner Arrested In Delhi riots Case Gets Bail, Court Says No Evidence

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Police said the rioters used a catapult to throw missiles into the compound of the other school.

The owner of a school, who was arrested in connection with the riots in northeast Delhi this February, has been granted bail by a Delhi court, which observed that despite police allegations, the chargesheet did not provide any evidence of terror funding or his alleged links with Pinjra Tod group, the Popular Front of India and Muslim clerics. The court also said the prima facie evidence suggested that he was not present at the spot at the time of incident.

Faisal Farooq, the owner of Rajdhani Public School in Shiv Vihar, was accused of instructing a mob to vandalise and set fire to the adjacent DRP Convent School, two parking lots and a sweet shop, where a man had died.

Farooq had claimed that he was not at the school when the rioters used his building as a base. He also said that he had tried to approach the police for help.

One of the guards of the school was kept hostage for nearly three days as rioters went on rampage. They had used ropes to climb down from the school’s terrace into the compound of the neighbouring DRP Convent School which was then set on fire. The mob had also made off with the computers and other expensive items from DRP Convent School.

In the chargesheet, the police alleged that he was in touch with the members of Popular Front of India, Pinjra Tod group, Jamia Coordination Committee, Hazrat Nizamuddin Markaz and religious leaders of Deoband for triggering the riots.

“Rioters had camped inside and fired bullets from the terrace of Rajdhani School. They also threw petrol bombs, acid, bricks, stones and other missiles using an improvised large iron catapult, specially installed for the purpose, from the terrace of Rajdhani School,” the chargesheet read.

In its bail order, the court said the police “chargesheet is bereft of material showing the links of applicant with PFI, Pinjra Tod group and Muslim clerics”. The court also added, “It is prima facie not established that the applicant was present at the spot at the time of incident.”

The court also said, “There is hardly any material to substantiate the allegation of terror funding.”

The court also noted that there were contradictions in the statements of witnesses and the investigating officer had tried to file a supplementary statement of a prosecution witness “to cover up the deficiency”.

About the iron catapult found on the roof of the school, which was allegedly used by the rioters, the court said that on the basis of records, it was found 16 days after the incident. If the presence of the accused could not be established, then the slingshot could not be attributed to him.

Regarding police allegations that the accused had mobile conversations with a woman who had links with Saiful Islam Law Faculty, the court observed that she was “in fact a reporter” with a newspaper.

The police had also alleged that Farooq had conversations with 4 other people, but the court pointed out that one was an advocate, another was the applicant’s cousin and the third was a local MLA whose children attend the school.

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