Delhi Anti-CAA Riots

Banojyotsna Lahiri, the girlfriend of Delhi anti-Hindu riot accused Umar Khalid has taken to Twitter to warn legal action against social media users who have been spreading her pregnancy rumours

Umar Khalid, one of the prime accused of Delhi anti-Hindu riots 2020, was denied bail last week.

In August 2020, Additional Solicitor General Aman Lekhi made submissions on behalf of the Delhi police in front of a division bench comprising Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Prateek Jalan. The Delhi Police had asserted that action taken by the police was necessary and proportionate to the violence unleashed by the mob during the anti-CAA protests.

The Delhi Police apprehended Umar Khalid on September 13, 2020, and charged him on November 22, 2020, under several provisions of the UAPA and the Indian Penal Code. In July 2021, Khalid filed a bail application.

Delhi court rejected bail plea of accused Saleem Khan in larger conspiracy case in Delhi Riots

Delhi HC issued a notice to the Centre, Delhi government and the Delhi police on a plea seeking recovery of damages from anti-CAA rioters

Former Congress councillor, Ishrat Jahan, who was arrested on the 26th of February 2020 for her involvement in the Delhi anti-Hindu riots has been given bail by the Karkardooma Court, Delhi.

The 2006 Varanasi bomb blasts were preceded by a wave of protests carried out by Muslim protesters

Delhi police said that if Sharjeel Imam is granted bail, he may evade the process of law and jump, threaten witnesses

India has had a long history of Hindu-Muslim violence since the colonial times but the Delhi anti-Hindu riots were different