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The Progressive International on Wednesday urged the Narendra Modi government to stop wrongful prosecution of non-violent protestors and expressed concern about the rising arrests of human right activists in India. The international organisation, which aims to unite, organise and mobilise progressive voices, criticised the use of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) ...

Fake news and “street rumours” were picked up by a section of politicians, activists and media to paint the 2008 Batla House encounter of Indian Mujahideen (IM) terrorists as staged, retired IPS officer and the then chief of the Delhi Police special cell Karnal Singh has said.The 1984-batch officer ...

The Delhi Police in its chargesheet have said that they had questioned Bharatiya Janata Party leader Kapil Mishra in the last week of July in connection with the violence that broke out in North East Delhi in February, The Indian Express reported on Tuesday. On February 23, Mishra gave ...

Freelance journalist Rajeev Sharma (pic 1, left); Qing Shi and Nepalese national Sher Singh. (Credits: ANI) In a statement, the PCI demanded that in all cases of arrests of journalists anywhere in the country, "the police must be required to inform the Press Council of India as well as ...

Opposition leaders on Thursday met President Ram Nath Kovind to raise concerns about the Delhi Police’s investigation into the violence that engulfed parts of the city in February.“The leaders impressed upon the President of India that instead of conducting an investigation into the communal violence in which 53 lives ...

Over 600 citizens on Thursday criticised the Delhi Police over its “biased investigation” into the large-scale communal violence that broke out in the Capital in February. In a statement, they said that the police were arresting students, artists and journalists on the basis of fabricated and forced confessions and ...

Former Indian Police Service officer Julio Ribeiro on Wednesday told Delhi Police Commissioner SN Shrivastava that had he been in his place while investigating February’s communal violence, he would not have “prolonged” the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act cases by arresting people shortly before the deadline for filing the chargesheet ...

NEW DELHIA group of activists in India criticized Delhi police for targeting voices speaking against the controversial citizenship law, claiming “the dissent are being implicated” in the country.The group that issued a statement Wednesday expressed anguish at the “sheer brazenness” with which the Delhi police has turned the investigation ...

Delhi Police Commissioner SN Shrivastava on Tuesday defended his force as he responded to former bureaucrat Julio Ribeiro’s letter seeking an unflawed investigation into the February communal violence. Shrivastava said the police force did not differentiate a complainant on the basis of caste or religion and claimed that a ...