'A journalist was shot and four others were injured while covering the ongoing violence in northeast Delhi on Tuesday, reports said. Akash Napa, a reporter for JK 24x7 News TV channel, was shot at Maujpur and admitted to Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital in Dilshad Garden, several journalists said on Tuesday. The channel said his condition was serious...'
'Journalists covering the violence in Delhi are alleging that mobs backing the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) have been attacking them and preventing them from on-ground reporting. A number of journalists told ThePrint that they were specifically targeted by those supporting the citizenship act. “I was reporting from Maujpur metro station. I was reporting from a safe corner and I wasn’t alone,” Parvina Purkayastha, senior correspondent, Times Now told ThePrint.
'A 25-year-old man suffered a gunshot wound as clashes broke out between anti-citizenship-law protesters and police in Aligarh’s Shah Jamal area on Sunday evening, officials said. Friends rushed the injured man, identified as Mohammad Tariq, on a motorcycle to a local hospital where his condition was said to be critical. Doctors at the hospital were quoted as saying that Tariq, a hardware shopkeeper, had a firearm injury on the left side of his chest...'
'...Karnataka minister BC Patil on Sunday advocated central legislation that enables authorities “to shoot at sight” those chanting pro-Pakistan slogans. Responding to reporters’ queries on the ongoing fracas over the chants, Patil said he would appeal to PM Narendra Modi to bring in a law so that anti-national elements are “killed on the spot”...'
'On Sunday, former Delhi MLA and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Kapil Mishra took out a rally against the anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act protest in Jaffrabad, North East Delhi. He also issued a call through Twitter urging people to gather and “prevent another Shaheen Bagh” protest from taking place near the Jaffrabad Metro Station. Soon after, violence broke out between supporters and critics of the new law. Stone pelting reportedly took place from both sides and some vehicles were also damaged.
'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.
'...The protesters appeared to be divided along religious lines, and some repeatedly hailed Hindu god Ram while pelting stones at the predominantly Muslim group opposed to the new law. A Reuters witness saw at least one Muslim man and a burqa-clad woman beaten by dozens of pro-law protesters with sticks and iron rods... But for several hours, Reuters witnesses saw the outnumbered policemen mostly stand beside those backing the citizenship law, a majority Hindu group, and do little to quell the violence.
'Three Muslim men picked up by Pune Police on suspicion of being “illegal Bangladeshis”, after a vigilante-style raid by MNS workers on Saturday, were let go after they were confirmed to be Indian citizens from West Bengal. The men, however, had to spend the full day at the police station. One of the three men has submitted a complaint against the MNS workers alleging harassment, tresspassing and invasion of privacy. No FIR has been registered so far.
'In a shocking statement, a Sri Rama Sene member on Friday offered Rs 10 lakh as reward to anyone who kills student protester Amulya Leona. In a video that has emerged from Ballari, the man who introduces himself as a Sri Rama Sene leader says this kind of 'anti-national' activity is spreading like cancer. "Amulya Leona, a student, has said Pakistan Zindabad. I request the state government, that she should not be released on bail.
'A 20-year-old Dalit boy, Rahul Meghwal, was allegedly beaten up and his head partly tonsured forcefully by few men of a privileged caste in Rajasthan's Jodhpur district on 18 February 2020. The incident happened when Rahul had gone to meet a female friend, who belongs to an upper caste family, that resulted in an argument between the girl's family members and the victim...'
