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By Ritika Jain Delhi High Court said 23-year-old Faizan’s death after he was beaten and forced to sing the national anthem during the 2020 Delhi Riots was motivated by “religious bigotry” and constituted a “hate crime”. The high court observed the probe in this matter was “tardy,” “sketchy,” and “conveniently sparing” those persons who are suspected to be involved in the brutal assault while transferring the investigation to the CBI. The high court observed that far from preventing hate crimes, some police officials appeared to have indulged in “mob-vigilantism” and “mob-violence” against 23-y...
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By Kaisar Andrabi Delhi – Thirty-two-year-old Salman Ali, a photojournalist with Hindustan Media, is grappling with the challenge of managing his tasks with just one arm. His other arm sustained a fracture when he was pushed down by the Delhi Police while covering the protest of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders amid the arrest of Delhi’s Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal. Ali, who has been in the profession for over a decade, told BOOM the events that unfolded while covering the protest of AAP workers and leaders at Delhi’s Patel Chowk metro station. He recalled how, amid the chaos of the Delhi Pol...
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By Ritika Jain The Delhi High Court on Friday issued notice and directed the Delhi Police to respond to allegations that in the remand application, the probe agency apparently failed to disclose the grounds for arrest. "Today there is a Supreme Court judgment which is staring in the eye," Justice Tushar Gedela said referring to the verdict where the top court held that grounds of arrest must be communicated in writing to an accused. The high court’s direction came on a plea filed by NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha and human resources head Amit Chakravarthy on a plea challenging their arre...
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By Archis Chowdhury An edited image showing wrestler Vinesh Phogat, Sangeeta Phogat, and others smiling inside a police van is viral on social media. Users are sharing this image to purport that the protest, and recent clashes with the police are an act for the camera. BOOM found the original photo, and used the face editing app "Face App" to digitally add smiles to the faces in the image, which resulted in creation of the photo with smiling faces going viral. Phogat and the others were detained by Delhi Police on Sunday following a scuffle between the police and protesting wrestlers, after th...
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By Surbhi Sharma In a circular, dated April 11, the Commissioner of Delhi Police has asked the police personnel to use simpler words while registering FIR/chargesheet and avoid using complex Urdu/Persian words like 'Mujrim', 'Ilzaam', 'Intezaam', and 'Dastakhat' among others. The circular, accessed by BOOM, is in accordance with an order from the Delhi High Court in 2019 which stated that the FIR should be in the words of the complainant and overly complex words, that may require the use of a dictionary to understand its meaning should be avoided. According to the 14-page circular, after the D...
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By Hazel Gandhi Social media posts claiming that the Delhi Police received over 35,000 complaints on Holi related to molestation, harassment and quarrels are misleading. BOOM found that the reports are six years old, and the figures this year on the day of Holi were not above the usual average. The InShorts report that is cited by most social media posts alleges that the complaints included 11 cases of murder, 21 rape and molestation cases, 211 eve teasing cases, 46 instances of road rage, 142 cases of stabbing and around 40 of shootout and firing. The misleading claim has surfaced as actual i...
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By Nivedita Niranjankumar Facebook posts claiming 23 year old Nikki Yadav was strangled to death in Delhi by her Muslim boyfriend Mohammed Sahil who then stored her body in a fridge, are false as the accused in the murder is a Hindu man. BOOM found that the accused is 24-year-old Sahil Gehlot, son of a Virender Singh. According to the reports, Gehlot allegedly murdered Yadav by strangling her and disposed off her body by placing it in a refrigerator in his eatery, following which he got married to another woman. Gehlot and Yadav were allegedly in a relationship for over four years but his pare...
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By Nivedita Niranjankumar News outlets NDTV India, Times Now Navbharat and Aaj Tak falsely claimed that the accused who viciously stabbed Delhi Police Assistant Sub Inspector Shambhu Dayal leading to his death, is a Muslim man. BOOM spoke to Delhi Police who rubbished the viral claim and said that the accused is a Anish Raj, son of Prahlad Raj and that there is no communal angle to the incident NDTV India, the Hindi wing of NDTV in a video story about the CCTV footage of the incident, mentioned the accused as "Mohammed Anish". The false claim was also made by right-wing outlets Sudarshan News ...
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By Sana Fazili The brutal murder of a 27-year-old woman by her partner in Delhi and gory details of an alleged coverup by the accused has sent shockwaves across the country. Twenty-eight-year-old Aftab Poonawala allegedly strangulated his girlfriend Shraddha Walkar in Delhi on May 18 after an argument between the two escalated. He reportedly chopped her body and stored it in a fridge and disposed off the pieces at several locations across the city over the next few weeks. Poonawala was arrested on Saturday and reportedly told the police he killed Walkar after an argument. "He told us during th...
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By Ritika Jain The Delhi Police on Monday evening arrested Mohammed Zubair, co-founder of AltNews, fact-checking website for allegedly hurting religious sentiments and promoting enmity. According to Pratik Sinha, co-founder, AltNews, Delhi Police had allegedly summoned Zubair for questioning in a two-year-old POCSO case, but was subsequently arrested on a different charge of spreading communal disharmony. "No FIR copy is being given to us despite repeated requests," co-founder Pratik Sinha tweeted. Sinha further tweeted that Zubair was taken to the hospital for a routine medical examination an...
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