The Citizens' Report on 2020 Delhi Riots is an Indictment of the Country: Harsh Mander Oct 14, 2022 https://youtu.be/SxatuIdJ7Ng?t=114 Harsh Mander added: “The report underlines how dark a moment this is in India’s journey as a republic, how every institution is crumbling and with what consequences.”
The interview first discusses in some detail the Citizens Committee report’s findings about the response, behaviour and alleged complicity of the Delhi Police. How they failed to act for three days even though they had received at least six internal alerts from the Special Branch. How the Committee has found a mass of information indicating police failures and police complicity. How the behavior of the police at Jamia Millia Islamia was nothing short of brutality.
Most importantly, the interview discusses the report’s findings that show that the charge of conspiracy to create terror is fabricated and prosecution under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act is “a perversion of the law”. The interview also discusses the report’s findings that the charge of conspiracy “is based on unexplained belated statements which are inherently unreliable in law.”
police were reluctant to act? https://youtu.be/SxatuIdJ7Ng?t=226
FIR: on conspiracy? Charge to use anti-teorror laws UAPA perversion of the law https://youtu.be/SxatuIdJ7Ng?t=754
A report on the north-east Delhi riots https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/a-report-on-the-north-east-delhi-riots/article66007158.ece
Soibam Rocky SinghOCTOBER 13, 2022 an independent fact-finding Committee has blamed the breakout of violence to a deliberate build-up of polarised hate between communities, particularly anti-Muslim hate.
the report states that there was a targeted application of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) by the state. A few weeks into investigating, the police applied the (UAPA), an anti-terror legislation, into one of the FIRs connected with the riots, severely restricting the avenues of the accused to get bail during the course of the trial.
The report states that the committee’s examination of the violence led it to “discern broader implications impacting constitutional values and the health of democracy in India. The microcosm of an engineered anti-Muslim narrative leading to the violence signals the growing fusion of hate messaging in public discourse with the actual incidence of violence. There seems to be a deafening lack of institutional will to act against hateful content.”
It refers to the effective and balanced regulation of broadcasting and social media as an urgent challenge. It further reflects that “[c]apacity for empathetic thought and action to enable harmonious interactions, and most importantly, imagination to resolve conflict are essential attributes for a plural society to last in the long run. … The only way forward is for the state to act towards justice harbored in the conjoined practice of fraternity, equality and freedom.”
https://theleaflet.in/citizens-committee-report-lifts-the-veil-on-institutional-failure-in-2020-north-east-delhi-violence/