Muslims offer Friday prayers amid tension in Delhi
News | February 28, 2020 18:27 ISTDelhi: Muslims offer Friday prayers amid tension in the Capital. Watch India TV's ground report from Chand bagh and Brahmapuri areas.
Delhi: Muslims offer Friday prayers amid tension in the Capital. Watch India TV's ground report from Chand bagh and Brahmapuri areas.
The BSP president charged that the "country has seen and felt that BJP and its government have failed to fulfil its legal and Constitutional duty as a result of which about three dozen lives have been lost and 200 have been injured and several businesses destroyed in times of high inflation, poverty and unemployment."
Head constable in Delhi Police Deepak Dahiya in an exclusive conversation with India TV narrated the ordeal when he braved pistol man Shahrukh in northeast Delhi violence during anti-CAA protests. Dahiya, who faced pistol man from point-blank range said his prime objective was to save lives of people by diverting the attention of the shooter who was firing in the air.
Nearly 7,000 paramilitary forces have been deployed in the affected areas since Monday. Hundreds of Delhi Police personnel are also on the ground to maintain peace.
Violence in Northeast Delhi has so far claimed 38 lives, with many others being treated at the hospital. On Thursday, the Delhi Police issued an appeal and requested the people, including media persons, to come forward and give their statements
Areas under 12 of the 203 police stations in Delhi (about 4.2 per cent of the geographical area) got affected in the violence that began on February 23 evening and continued for a couple of days.
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The police have transferred the northeast Delhi riots probe to the crime branch and the cases will now be probed by two Special Investigation Teams (SITs). As many as 48 FIRs have been filed as of now.
A 30-year-old woman, who was assaulted, kicked in abdomen and survived a brutal attack by mob during riots in Delhi's northeast, gave birth to a baby boy. Hailing from Karawal Nagar, the victim feels that giving birth to a healthy baby was nothing less than a miracle despite being brutally attacked during the Delhi riots.
The home ministry requested the people not to lay credence to any rumour. The Delhi Police has set up helplines – 22829334 and 22829335 – for round-the-clock assistance.
The GTB Hospital in Dilshad Garden, where many of the 200 injured in the riots that broke out on Monday are being treated and where scores of people lined up outside the mortuary to claim the bodies of their loved ones, recorded five more deaths.
As police conducted flag marches and security personnel spread out across the northeastern edge of the national capital in a bid to quell the violence raging since Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his first reaction appealed for peace and brotherhood.
Families in Bhajanpura said they saw masked rioters come in vans and disperse into two groups that vandalised both areas. Locals said both sides are suffering in the absence of electricity, shuttered medical shops and absence of basic necessities like vegetables and milk.
27 people were killed and over 200 were injured in the communal clashes that broke out in northeast Delhi three days ago after violence between anti and pro Citizenship (Amendment) Act groups spiralled out of control.
27 people have died, while over 190 are injured so far in violence in Northeast Delhi after clashes between pro and anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) erupted on Sunday. As police conducted flag marches and security personnel spread out across the northeastern edge of the national capital in a bid to quell the violence raging since Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his first reaction appealed for peace and brotherhood.
Earlier, a high court bench headed by Justice Muralidhar had passed a series of orders with regard to the violence in Northeast Delhi and said that "another 1984-like situation cannot be allowed to happen in the city under its watch."
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