By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Updated: September 13, 2020 8:37:39 pm He also questioned how “if a defendant (Gulfisha Fathima) mentions a name in her statement, that person will be named as a defendant on the charge sheet.” (Proceedings) Congressional Leader P Chidambaram said on Sunday that …
Read More »Yechury, others beaten in riot investigation, Delhi police respond
New Delhi: General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Sitaram Yechury criticized the Delhi police investigation into the February riots, in which several students and civil liberties activists have been arrested. Friday evening, The wire reported that intellectuals and political party leaders, including Yechury, Swaraj leader Abhiyan Yogendra …
Read More »Yechury, Yadav, 2 teachers, filmmaker named on Delhi Police Riot Charge Sheet
Written by Aranya Shankar, Anand Mohan J | New Delhi | Updated: September 13, 2020 5:50:32 am (Clockwise from above) Yogendra Yadav, Jayati Ghosh, Apoorvanand, Rahul Roy, and Sitaram Yechury. Citing “disclosure” statements to assert that the protests against the CAA / NRC in Delhi were carried out to “smear” …
Read More »Sitaram Yechury, Yogendra Yadav Named on the Delhi Riots Supplemental Charge Sheet
Delhi police appointed CPI (M) Secretary General Sitaram Yechury, Swaraj Abhiyan leader Yogendra Yadav, economist Jayati Ghosh and University of Delhi professor Apoorvanand on a supplemental charge sheet in the February riots cases, accusing them of “provoking and mobilizing” anti-CAA. protesters. Some of those named have also been charged – …
Read More »Dear television editors, think about what you are doing to the country
Dear editors, Forgive me for writing to all of you collectively and not individually. Also for approaching you publicly. On principle, I hate the idea of addressing a person publicly even on matters that may have consequences for people and public life beyond correspondents. However, there is a reason to …
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