'A video of police personnel in riot gear thrashing five people lying injured on the side of a road is viral on social media. The video shows a policeman capturing the incident on his mobile phone while the injured men are being forced to sing the national anthem. The cops can also be heard hurling abuses and repeatedly using the word ‘Azadi’ while beating the men. The official Twitter account of Shaheen Bagh wrote that the clip was shot violence in Delhi in the view of protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA)...
'Soon after a rally was taken out by BJP leader Kapil Mishra near a demonstration against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act in northeast Delhi’s Jaffrabad on Sunday, clashes erupted between pro- and anti-CAA protesters in the area. Security officials at the spot admitted the violence, including stone-pelting, threatened to take a communal turn, but was controlled.
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.
'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.
'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.
'The India Today TV has accessed a copy of the letter written by the Delhi Police to the Delhi government seeking permission to set up a temporary jail that could be used to detain people protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in the national capital. The letter dated January 29, 2020 was written by Additional Commissioner of Police, Rohini district, SD Msira, and was addressed to Delhi government's principal secretary (home). The Delhi Police has claimed that it had not written any letter seeking permission to set up a temporary jail...'
'Journalist and activist Saket Gokhale was granted permission by the Parliament Street police station of Delhi police to raise the slogan “desh ke gaddaron ko, goli maaro saalon ko (shoot the traitors)” during a peaceful protest he planned at Jantar Mantar on February 2. Gokhale said that the Delhi police asked him if his protest was in favour of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) or against it. When he told the police that the protest did not have anything to do with the Act, he was given permission to hold the protest.
'Students and civilians who gathered on Thursday near Ministry of Human Resources and Development (MHRD) to protest the violence in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) were lathi-charged and a dozen of them were detained from the location by police. Protesters alleged they were lathi-charged by the police near Shastri Bhawan even though they were marching peacefully from MHRD towards Rashtrapati Bhavan after students met HRD ministry officials... A female protester who was present at the demonstration alleged she was hit by a male cop.
'“In my SIT (Special Investigation Team), there are three ACPs and seven officers, and we have been working day and night“, announced DCP (Crime) Joy Tirkey during a January 10 press conference by Delhi police on JNU violence. The officer laid down the purported sequence of events that led to a rampage in the varsity campus on the intervening night of January 5-6. He began with alleged vandalism of servers by students opposing hostel fee hike to stop registrations for the winter session of the university...
'Even as reporters attempt to understand what exactly took place inside Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University on Sunday, one thing seems clear: the police didn’t do its job. That was evident from the fact that it failed to prevent the entry of masked, armed men into the campus and stood by quietly as a mob roughed up journalists and politicians at the gate of the university. This appears even more egregious when you compare the actions of the Delhi Police in several incidents over the past month, when it would not even permit peaceful assembly in public spaces.
