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  • Delhi riot suspect arrested from Bengal after cops observe location of his cellphone

    By Express News Service

    KOLKATA: In a pre-dawn swoop on Thursday, a Delhi police crew raided a home in Tamluk, East Midnapore, and arrested Mohammad Farhid alias Neetu, a key accused within the communal riots in Delhi’s Jahangipuri space on Hanuman Jayanti. Crime department personnel traced the accused by monitoring the situation of his cellphone.

    Farid was hiding at his aunt’s home the place he took refuge after the communal discord. He was produced in a Tamluk courtroom and remanded to transit remand. The Delhi police crew left Kolkata in a flight on Thursday night.

    Sources within the police mentioned Farid is a history-sheeter and had been booked in six circumstances which embrace theft, snatching and housebreaking.

    Shortly after the incident, Farid managed to present police the slip. “He took a train and reached Howrah railway station. From there, he took a bus to reach Tamluk,” mentioned a police officer including, “The mistake he did was he continued switching on and switching off his cellphone frequently during the course of his journey. Since we placed his cellphone number under the scanner, we could track his movement whenever he switched on his handset.”

    The police carried out raids at a number of locations in west Uttar Pradesh and Farid had a slender escape on a number of events, mentioned the police.

    Farid’s arrest comes hours after two extra accused Jaffar and Babuddin have been arrested. “While examining footage of multiple CCTV cameras, Jaffar was seen roaming around with the unruly crowd with a sword during the violence. Babuddin was found instigating the crowd,” mentioned one other police officer.

  • Amit Shah failed to guard Delhi from communal violence: NCP chief Sharad Pawar

    By PTI

    MUMBAI: NCP president Sharad Pawar on Saturday mentioned Union Home Minister Amit Shah couldn’t defend Delhi from communal riots. Speaking at a rally of the Nationalist Congress Party at Kolhapur in western Maharashtra, Pawar referred to violence that broke out in Jahangirpuri space of Delhi throughout Hanuman Jayanti processions.

    “Few days back, Delhi was burning due to communal tensions. The state of Delhi is controlled by (chief minister) Arvind Kejriwal, but its police comes under the Union Home Ministry handled by Amit Shah. Shah failed to protect the city from communal riots. If anything happens in Delhi, the message goes out to the world. The world would imagine that there is unrest in Delhi. You have power, but you can not handle Delhi,” he mentioned.

    He additionally focused the BJP authorities in Karnataka over riots in Hooghly. “The names of shops and their owners from minority communities were mentioned on a hoarding. It was also written on it that people should not buy things from such shops. This is a common picture in the states where the BJP is in power,” the previous Union minister mentioned.

  • ‘I’ll elevate troublesome points’: UK PM Boris Johnson on Jahangirpuri controversy

    By PTI

    LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday indicated that he can be elevating “difficult issues” when he meets his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Friday.

    The troublesome points being referred to is prone to embody the controversial demolition of some properties as a part of an “anti-encroachment” drive by the BJP-ruled North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) within the Jahangirpuri space of north-west Delhi, days after communal clashes within the locality.

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    Johnson was responding to questions from the UK media throughout a go to to a brand new bulldozer manufacturing unit in Gujarat’s Halol industrial space close to Vadodara arrange by British multinational JCB. “We always raise the difficult issues, of course we do, but the fact is that India is a country of 1.35 billion people and it is democratic, it’s the world’s largest democracy,” Johnson was quoted within the ‘Guardian’ newspaper as saying in response to questions.

    The manufacturing unit go to got here beneath hearth on social media over JCB tools being concerned within the “anti-encroachment” demolitions in Delhi, which activists have claimed focused one explicit non secular neighborhood – a problem being thought of by the Supreme Court.

    However, Johnson sought to spotlight the brand new Halol plant as a “living, breathing incarnation of the umbilicus between the UK and India”. “This is a world-leading factory – 600,000 diggers a year coming from India, exported from India to 110 countries with British technology,” he mentioned.

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    The UK media additionally raised the difficulty of JCB chairman Anthony Bamford being a donor to Johnson’s Conservative Party and whether or not the go to was motivated by that connection. “No, he chose to go to the JCB factory because it is a very good illustration of UK business, working with India and the Indian government to benefit both the UK and India,” Johnson’s official spokesperson advised the ‘Guardian’.

  • Bulldozers pause in riot-hit Jahangirpuri after SC fiat

    Express News Service

    NEW DELHI:  Bulldozers have been again in play towards alleged rioters, this time in Delhi, until the Supreme Court’s established order order was formally communicated to the North Delhi Municipal Corporation’s demolition group in Jahangirpuri round quarter previous midday on Wednesday. 

    ‘Bulldozer justice’ towards alleged rioters was first delivered in Madhya Pradesh and replicated in Gujarat earlier than it was initiated in New Delhi. While the demolition squad with heavy police safety had already begun motion in Jahangirpuri, the matter was talked about by senior advocate Dushyant Dave earlier than a Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana. 

    “…The drive is unconstitutional. Unauthorised demolition is taking place in Jahangirpuri where riots took place. No notice was served or reply sought,” he instructed the apex courtroom whereas mentioning a plea filed by Jamiat Ulama-I-Hind. 

    Senior advocate Kapil Sibal talked about one other Jamait plea on the bigger subject of demolition of residential or industrial property as a punitive measure in numerous components of the nation with out following due course of. Despite the bench ordering established order and posting the matter for pressing listening to by a day, the bulldozers went on razing the alleged encroachments. 

    Dave needed to point out the matter once more earlier than the bench round midday saying the demolition was on regardless of its orders, earlier than the courtroom directed speaking the established order by the secretary-general of the courtroom to the involved authorities.

    It was CPM chief Brinda Karat who rushed to the spot and stood in entrance of a bulldozer with a tough copy of the Supreme Court order earlier than the drive got here to a grinding halt. The clock learn near 12.15 pm. By then the operation had gone on for about two-and-a-half hours. Among different a number of buildings torn down was the gate of a mosque.

    The motion drew a wave of condemnation. “At least the Supreme Court and its order should not be bulldozed,” Brinda Karat instructed reporters. Congress chief Rahul Gandhi referred to as it “a demolition of India’s constitutional values” whereas urging Prime Minister Narendra Modi to modify off the “bulldozers of hate”. 

    Hyderabad MP and AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi  tried visiting Jahangirpuri however was stopped by the police. As for the BJP-ruled North Delhi Municipal Corporation, it mentioned the demolition round a 2 km stretch was a part of a routine train.

    ‘Why punish the entire community?’
    Shop house owners whose buildings have been demolished, claimed the NDMC didn’t give them prior discover.  “If you (authorities) want to punish, then punish the accused who have been arrested. Why are you punishing the whole community?,” Mohd Rahman, whose store was razed, mentioned 

  • Supreme Court stays anti-encroachment drive in Jahangirpuri

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday stopped the anti-encroachment drive by authorities in violence-hit Jahangirpuri space right here, and agreed to listen to a petition difficult the motion of the civic our bodies allegedly aimed in opposition to the riot accused.

    A bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana ordered established order within the current state of affairs, and stated the petition can be listed earlier than an applicable bench.

    Senior advocate Dushyant Dave talked about a petition in opposition to the particular joint encroachment removing motion of civic our bodies together with the NDMC and the PWD, and stated “a completely unauthorised and unconstitutional demolition” has been ordered.

    He alleged that the demolition, which was to begin at 2 pm on Wednesday, has begun at 9 am and no necessary discover for demolition has been served on the alleged violators.

    The space had witnessed violent clashes, together with stone pelting, arson and firing, between two communities throughout a Hanuman Jayanti procession on Saturday. Eight police personnel and a neighborhood resident had sustained accidents.

  • Supreme Court orders established order on demolition drive in Jahangirpuri, matter to be heard on April 21

    By Express News Service

    NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered a status-quo on the demolition drive in Jahangirpuri, Delhi.

    The matter was talked about by Senior advocate Dushyant Dave earlier than the bench headed by Chief Justice NV Ramana.

    “…The drive is unconstitutional, unauthorized demolition is taking place in Jahangirpuri where riots took place. No notice was served so that reply is served in 10 days,” he stated.

    ALSO READ: MCD bulldozers in Jahangirpuri right this moment, cops on alert

    Senior advocate Kapil Sibal additionally mentions the plea by Jamiat Ulama-I-Hind looking for instructions that residential lodging or any business property can’t be demolished as a punitive measure. The petitioners have stated within the plea that the administration in a number of states is using bulldozers to raze down the homes of individuals suspected to be concerned in felony incidents corresponding to riots.

    The petitioners have additionally prayed that police personnel to be offered specialised coaching in dealing with communal riots and conditions the place populations turn into restive.

    The court docket will hear each issues tomorrow.

  • Delhi police chief visits cop injured in Jahangirpuri violence, assures him all help

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: Delhi Police chief Rakesh Asthana visited sub-inspector Meda Lal, who was injured in the course of the communal violence in Jahangirpuri, and warranted him the division would supply him all help, officers stated Monday.

    The police commissioner enquired about Lal’s wellbeing and informed him that all the drive is happy with his braveness and sense of responsibility which helped in rapidly controlling the unruly mob, in line with an announcement. “He assured him of all possible support and assistance from the department during these testing times,” it stated.

    Lal obtained a gunshot damage throughout clashes that broke out between two communities when a Hanuman Jayanti procession was passing by means of localities in northwest Delhi’s Jahangirpuri on Saturday. Seven different police personnel and a neighborhood resident have been injured within the violence.

    The Delhi Police has arrested 21 folks, together with the one that allegedly fired a bullet that hit the sub-inspector, and the “main conspirators” behind the clashes. Two juveniles have additionally been apprehended in reference to the incident.

  • The situation of air pollution in the capital Delhi and NCR is not serious – no relief is seen.

    Air Quality Index (AQI) continues to worsen in the national capital, it has recorded in the ‘severe category’ on Sunday, as per Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).

    In Anand Vihar, the Air Quality Index (AQI) was recorded at 431, in Jahangirpuri 465, 426 in Punjabi Bagh, and 424 in Rohini, all were recorded in ‘severe category’, as per CPCB.

    “Several plastic factories are running in Mayapuri, due to which the pollution is rising here. We are facing several problems because of it, we are not able to breathe properly,” said a local, Rajesh, in West Delhi.

    “Due to pollution, I am having throat problems, and in breathing too, however, to avoid all this, I try to be fit and have not stopped my morning walk,” said another local.

    “I ride cycle, but due to speed breathing, I am not able to put face mask every time, the situation is really harmful,” said a young cyclist.An AQI between 0-50 is marked good, 51-100 is satisfactory, 101-200 is moderate, 201- 300 is poor, 301-400 is very poor and 401-500 is considered severe. According to experts, the severe category affects the health of people and seriously impacts those with existing diseases. According to experts, the severe category affects the health of people and seriously impacts those with existing diseases.