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2020 riots case: HC notice to Delhi Police on bail plea by Sharjeel Imam in UAPA case

2020 riots case: HC notice to Delhi Police on bail plea by Sharjeel Imam in UAPA case

The Delhi high court on Friday issued notice in the bail application filed by student activist Sharjeel Imam in the larger conspiracy case linked to the February 2020 Delhi riots. Sharjeel through his lawyer Ibrahim and Talib Mustafa moved the high court against the trial court’s July 4 order. (File HT photo) A bench of justices Prathiba M Singh and Vikas Mahajn sought Delhi Police’s response and fixed August 27 as the next date of hearing. “Issue notice. List on August 27,” the court said in its order. Sharjeel through his lawyer Ibrahim and Talib Mustafa moved the high court against the trial court’s July 4 order. The trial court on July 4 had denied Sharjeel and Umar Khalid’s bail holding that there were no grounds to “entertain” the fresh plea as it could not even examine whether circumstances had changed since the Supreme Court rejected their pleas in January. Additional sessions judge (ASJ) Sameer Bajpai of the Karkardooma Courts, observed that the divergence of opinion between the January 5 Supreme Court judgment in the Gulfisha …

Delhi riots: Court convicts Tahir Hussain for murder of IB staffer

Delhi riots: Court convicts Tahir Hussain for murder of IB staffer

Hours after a Delhi court convicted former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) councillor Tahir Hussain for the murder of Intelligence Bureau (IB) staffer Ankit Sharma during the 2020 northeast Delhi riots, Ankit’s father told HT that he was “happy that the judge understood a father’s pain of living without a son”. The quantum of punishment will be pronounced soon (Photo for representation) Additional sessions judge Praveen Singh of Karkardooma courts held Hussain guilty of murder, promoting enmity between different religions, kidnapping and rioting with deadly weapon. Four others — Nazim, Kasim, Javed and Anas — were also convicted of the two charges apart from murder, and six others were acquitted of all charges in the case. Speaking to HT, 53-year-old Ravinder Kumar said the verdict brought some solace after more than five years of waiting. “All I want is for the judge to give them a strict punishment so that they suffer for the brutality they showed while killing Ankit. Anything less than that will be a disrespect to my son.” The quantum of punishment will …

AAP says northeast Delhi riots convict Tahir Hussain has no association with party since 2020 suspension

AAP says northeast Delhi riots convict Tahir Hussain has no association with party since 2020 suspension

Aam Aadmi Party on Monday said former councillor Tahir Hussain has had no association with the party since he was suspended from its primary membership in 2020 after he was booked in northeast Delhi riots case. Delhi court convicted former Aam Aadmi Party councillor Tahir Hussain and four others for the killing of Intelligence Bureau officer Ankit Sharma during the 2020 northeast Delhi riots, on Monday, July 13, 2026. (PTI File) The development came after a Delhi court convicted Hussain, who was an AAP councillor at the time of the violence, in the murder case of Intelligence Bureau officer Ankit Sharma during the 2020 riots. The party said, “Hussain was suspended from the party on February 27, 2020, within hours of the FIR being registered against him and has not been associated with the party since then.” The BJP, meanwhile, slammed the AAP following Hussain’s conviction, with several leaders saying AAP leaders should apologise over their association with him. “Hussain had contested the Delhi Assembly election as an AIMIM candidate from Mustafabad, a seat he …

Kin of IB officer killed in 2020 Delhi riots want ex-AAP leader Tahir Hussain, other convicts hanged

Kin of IB officer killed in 2020 Delhi riots want ex-AAP leader Tahir Hussain, other convicts hanged

Nearly six years since the killing of Intelligence Bureau officer Ankit Sharma, the conviction of local politician Tahir Hussain has brought some relief to his family, yet a gaping void refuses to leave them. IB staffer Ankit Sharma was murdered during Delhi riots in February, 2020 (Vipin Kumar/HT Photo) A Delhi court on Monday convicted Hussain and four others for being involved in the killing of Sharma, who was attacked by a mob and thrown into a drain during the communal violence in northeast Delhi in February 2020. The verdict has revived painful memories for Sharma’s family, which has been rebuilding its life away from Delhi. “It is very difficult to explain what our family is going through right now. There is a sense of relief because the court has convicted some of the accused, but at the same time, all the painful memories have come rushing back,” a member of Sharma’s family, requesting anonymity, told PTI. Also read: ‘Threat to Islamic event’: 12 right-wing terror suspects arrested in UK, aged 27 to 82 The …

Joe Sacco traces anatomy of Muzaffarnagar riots with care, without closure | Books and Literature News

Joe Sacco traces anatomy of Muzaffarnagar riots with care, without closure | Books and Literature News

6 min readJul 12, 2026 06:00 AM IST First published on: Jul 12, 2026 at 06:00 AM IST Even a prolific cartoonist like Rajinder Puri, not known to shy away from anything political, was wary of commenting on communal riots. The topical news cartoon has no space to reflect on the collective violent outburst. Pithy punchlines made under the day’s deadline could, in the middle of conflict, be grabbed by either side to further polarisation. It took Joe Sacco to break this self-imposed cartooning reticence. Now we see how a riot in India could be talked about in book-length cartooning with precision, empathy and, most of all, perspective. Like every chronicler of Hindu-Muslim strife, Sacco goes back to the birth pangs of the two nations — the trauma of millions displaced like the Karachi-born Puri. Sacco does it early on, on page 7, in a masterly stroke that sums up the 1947 Partition of the subcontinent in one page. He doesn’t dwell on it, urges you to read on. This urge to narrate without a …

Dhurandhar 2 Raw, Uncut: Aditya Dhar alters 1984 riots dialogue from Hamza-Pinda scene | Bollywood News

Dhurandhar 2 Raw, Uncut: Aditya Dhar alters 1984 riots dialogue from Hamza-Pinda scene | Bollywood News

3 min readMumbaiJun 10, 2026 12:59 PM IST After creating havoc at the box office, Aditya Dhar’s Dhurandhar 2 finally arrived on streaming platforms recently. The version released on OTT, titled Dhurandhar 2 Raw and Undekha, premiered on Netflix and JioHotstar. While the film has quickly climbed viewership charts and prompted many fans to revisit it, some viewers have noticed a subtle yet significant change from the theatrical version. According to Reddit users, Dhar has altered a plot point that appeared to reference, anti-Sikh riots of 1984. Many viewers took to Reddit to discuss an important post-interval confrontation between Jaskirat (Ranveer Singh) and his childhood friend Pinda (Udaybir Sandhu) in Dhurandhar: The Revenge. In the theatrical cut, Jaskirat confronts Pinda for peddling drugs, smuggling them into India, and betraying his homeland. Pinda responds by saying, “Keda desh? Wo desh jinne chaurasi vich apne bhaiyo nu mareya tha.” (The same country that killed our brothers in ’84.) What has been altered? However, viewers have pointed out that the dialogue has been modified in the OTT version …

Dhurandhar 2 uncut version reveals how Aditya Dhar removed controversial 1984 riots line, Khalistan angle from big scene

Dhurandhar 2 uncut version reveals how Aditya Dhar removed controversial 1984 riots line, Khalistan angle from big scene

Aditya Dhar’s blockbuster spy thriller, Dhurandhar, has been credited for pushing the envelope when it comes to realism in depicting the country’s socio-political scenario. The film, which tells the story of an Indian spy in Karachi, uses many real names and references to real figures from the world of politics, bureaucracy, and even terrorism. However, viewers have realised that director Dhar removed at least one plot point that had connections with a real-life tragedy from Indian history – the anti-Sikh 1984 riots. Ranveer Singh-led Dhurandhar The Revenge arrived on JioHotstar on June 4 almost a month after Netflix US release. (Netflix) The Khalistan angle in the original Dhurandhar 2 Dhurandhar 2’s uncut version, called Raw and Undekha, was released on Netflix and JioHotstar recently. Following this, many viewers have discovered Easter eggs or small modifications in the film. One such change is in the pivotal interval scene that features a confrontation between Hamza aka Jaskirat (Ranveer Singh) and his childhood friend Pinda (Udaybir Sandhu). In the film, when Jaskirat confronts Pinda for peddling drugs and …

2020 Delhi riots: Court defers verdict in IB officer murder case for June 11

2020 Delhi riots: Court defers verdict in IB officer murder case for June 11

A file image of Tahir Hussain. | Photo Credit: The Hindu A Delhi court on Thursday (June 4, 2026) deferred its verdict in the sensational murder case of Intelligence Bureau officer Ankit Sharma during the 2020 northeast Delhi riots for June 11. Additional Sessions Judge Praveen Singh was hearing the case against 11 accused, including former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain, and deferred the pronouncement of his judgment. The case pertains to an FIR registered at Dayalpur police station on the complaint of Ravinder Kumar, father of Ankit Sharma. According to the complaint, Sharma, who was posted with the Intelligence Bureau, had returned home from office on February 25, 2020, before stepping out again. When he did not return for a long time, his family began searching for him, only to be informed by locals that their son had been killed and his body thrown into the Khajuri Khas drain near a mosque in the Chand Bagh Pulia area. Sharma’s body was subsequently recovered from the drain. In his complaint, Mr, Kumar alleged that his son …

High Court grants Umar Khalid three-day interim bail in 2020 Delhi riots case

High Court grants Umar Khalid three-day interim bail in 2020 Delhi riots case

The Court granted interim bail from 7 am on June 1 till 5 pm on June 3 on a personal bond of Rs 1 lakh; The Court directed that Khalid shall remain within the NCR region, stay at his residence and visit only the hospital during the period of interim release Disclaimer: We do not own any of the content, ideas, images, or text presented here. All rights belong to their respective owners. For more information and to view the original source, please visit the following link: Source link

High Court grants bail to garment bizman in 2020 Delhi riots larger conspiracy case | Legal News

High Court grants bail to garment bizman in 2020 Delhi riots larger conspiracy case | Legal News

The Delhi High Court on Thursday granted bail to Salim Malik alias Munna, an accused booked under UAPA in the 2020 Northeast Delhi riots larger conspiracy case. On May 19, the trial court had refused Khalid interim bail, which he had sought to observe a death ritual of his uncle and to take care of his mother who is due to undergo surgery. The rejection had come a day after the Supreme Court, while underlining that bail is the rule and jail an exception even in UAPA cases, expressed “serious reservations” on the decision of one of its own benches in January to deny bail to Khalid in the 2020 Delhi riots case. A division bench of Justices Prathiba Singh and Madhu Jain is due to hear Khalid’s plea on Friday. On Thursday, relying on the very SC judgment from January, Justice Singh and Justice Jain granted bail to Malik, a garment businessman. Referring to the SC’s verdict, the bench observed, “The Supreme Court had categorised one set of accused persons in these matters as …