M. Mumtaj recalled the day exactly a year ago when his restaurant was burnt down and he was robbed at gunpoint at Sherpur Chowk in northeast Delhi where 53 people were killed in riots in 2020.
“At Dayalpur police station, I was told that if I want compensation, my FIR should not name anyone. Even though I could identify the rioters as we had bought property from them, I gave a complaint without names,” Mumtaj told a news conference organised by the CPM on Tuesday in the capital.
Mumtaj had moved court to register a first information report naming BJP legislator Mohan Singh Bisht and 21 others for rioting. He said his family was under threat as the case proceeded in the court.
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NEW DELHI: For the past year, Mohammad Sameer’s existence has been revolving around a single bed. His access to the world outside is only through his mobile phone.
“Mujhe normal zindagi chahiye, jaise mere baki dost log ghumte hai (I want my normal life back, like my friends). I just hope I walk, run soon. I want to go to school, have all the fun like other boys,” says the 17-year-old lying on his bed, at home in the Johri Pur area.
Hit by a bullet during the northeast Delhi riots last year, the lower part of Sameer’s body is paralysed. All that he remembers is on February 24, he was returning home after offering prayers at Kasabpura when he was shot. The bullet hit him on the right side of his chest. Unfortunately, the bullet shell got stuck in the backbone.
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Kapil Mishra, a BJP leader in Delhi, has often been in the news for his controversial remarks. His biggest ticket to fame is the speech he gave in Maujpur just before the Delhi riots where he threatened to take the law into his own hands if the police did not clear out the anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act protesters.
In this interview, Ismat Ara and Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta ask him about his polarising politics, his inflammatory remarks against the anti-CAA protest as well as students of JNU, AMU and Jamia, and his associations with Hindutva militants whose speeches helped incite violence in Delhi.
A year on, India s Muslim victims of Delhi riots say justice still unserved
24.02.2021
The shooter shouted Victory to Lord Ram , the Hindu god, before pulling the trigger that sent a bullet into Muhammad Nasir Khan s left eye. Khan placed his trembling hand on his bloody eye socket and his fingers slipped deep into the wound. At that moment, Khan was sure he would die.
Khan ended up surviving the violence that killed 53 others, mostly fellow Muslims, when it engulfed his neighbourhood in the Indian capital 12 months ago. But a year after India s worst communal riots in decades, the 35-year-old is still shaken and his attacker still unpunished. Khan says he s been unable to get justice due to a lack of police interest in his case.
A Delhi municipal worker stands next to the remains of vehicles, steel cupboards and other materials on a street vandalised during the violence in New Delhi, India on February 27, 2020 [File: AP/Altaf Qadri]
After the passing of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in December 2019, India’s Muslim community, civil rights activists and concerned citizens, occupied public spaces in an unprecedented manner to register their protest and protect India’s constitutional promise of secularism.
The protesters, however, faced vilification, police violence and a harsh media trial that branded them “anti-national” and “jihadi”. This perception was built by the governing Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), as they led one of the most communally charged electoral campaigns in Delhi ahead of the regional elections.