'A Delhi court on Tuesday sent Sharjeel Imam, named as an "instigator" by Delhi Police in its chargesheet on violent protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) at New Friends Colony in New Delhi last year, to judicial custody till March 3. Imam was arrested on sedition charges last month in a separate case. The police have filed the chargesheet before chief metropolitan magistrate Gurmohina Kaur, naming Imam as an instigator of the violence...'
'...Yet there is no denying that election results often challenge the exactitude of electronic recording of votes and their computation. In Delhi's 16 constituencies the tally of votes counted was higher than the number of people who had voted. In another 22 constituencies, the votes counted were lower than the turnout figure in each. Delhi's Karol Bagh had an excess of 1,155 votes; Sangam Vihar a shortfall of 864 votes.
'In a major departure from past practice, the Arvind Kejriwal government has made it mandatory for a large number of teachers and education department officials to attend its swearing in ceremony at Ramlila Maidan on Sunday. A notice issued by the Directorate of Education has informed all those directed to attend that their attendance will also be marked at the venue.
Footage of Delhi police, some of them masked, carrying out a violent unprovoked assault on students studying in Jamia Millia Islamia library on Dec. 15th 2019.
'If there is one social demographic that played the most significant role in ensuring AAP’s second consecutive landslide victory in Delhi, it is that of women. Not only did women electors this time nearly match their male counterparts when it came to voting, falling short by just 0.07 percentage points, they also ended up voting overwhelmingly in favour of AAP, far more than men did, disproving the long-held belief that women vote on the advice of their husbands or other male members of their family.
'An Aam Aadmi Party worker died in Delhi late last night after bullets were shot at open car of the party's MLA from Mehrauli, Naresh Yadav, while he was returning from a temple following his win in the assembly election. Another worker has been injured. The MLA escaped unhurt. "Shots fired at AAP MLA Naresh Yadav and the volunteers accompanying him while they were on their way back from temple. At least one volunteer has passed away due to bullet wounds. Another is injured," the party tweeted from its official handle...'
'Its debacle in Delhi may be seen by many as a rebuff to the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), but BJP does not intend to back down from its plan to use the new law as one of its key planks. The BJP leadership believes the focus on CAA was the reason why its vote share improved by over 6%...'
'On Monday, the Supreme Court asked how protestors at Shaheen Bagh could occupy a public road for nearly two months. The court was hearing petitions demanding the stretch occupied by protestors in Delhi be cleared to ease traffic congestion for commuters. The court is scheduled to hear the matter again on February 17... Scroll.in mapped the roads in the area and found that the public inconvenience was not merely because of the closure of GD Birla Marg. Two alternative routes that could have been used by commuters have been barricaded by Delhi and Uttar Pradesh police.
'The Aam Aadmi Party has, once again, swept Delhi - just months after the Bharatiya Janata Party won all of the capital's seven seats. For many, this victory will come as a relief. Urban India has seen sustained and energetic protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Register of Citizens, and the epicentre of these has been Delhi and Shaheen Bagh. That the BJP has been defeated here is therefore of national importance, especially as the party and its leaders sought to turn this into a quasi-referendum on Shaheen Bagh.
'More than 10 students of Jamia Millia University, who participated in an anti-CAA march towards Parliament, have been admitted to the Jamia Health Centre for injuries in their private parts. Speaking to India Today TV, the resident doctors at the health centre said that some of the injuries were so severe that the students had to be shifted to Al-Shifa hospital... A student, who was being treated at the health centre told India Today TV that a woman cop removed her burqa and hit her in private parts with a lathi. "I have been hit on my private parts by cops with boots.
