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Shocking: Train ran over 14 migrant workers in Aurangabad; killed

Fourteen migrant workers were run over by a goods train in Maharashtra’s Aurangabad district on Friday. The workers, who were walking to Bhusawal from Jalna, were returning to Madhya Pradesh, news agency PTI reported quoting an official of the Karmad police station.

“They had been walking along the rail tracks and slept on the rail tracks due to exhaustion,” he said. The incident happened around 5.15 am on Friday, the official added.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday expressed anguish over train accident.

In a tweet, the prime minister said, “Extremely anguished by the loss of lives due to the rail accident in Aurangabad, Maharashtra. Have spoken to Railway Minister Shri Piyush Goyal and he is closely monitoring the situation”.

FIR against Sudhir Chaudhary of Zee News under nonbailable sections in Kerala

An FIR has been filed against Sudhir Chaudhary in Kerala under nonbailable sections. He is the editor-in-chief of Zee News and hosts the prime-time show Daily News And Analysis on Zee News. The FIR says: ‘On March 11, 2020, Zee News TV channel broadcast DNA programme. The accused presented a programme that is offending the Muslim religion.’

The highlight of the show on March 11 was the “jihad chart”. In his show, he explained his viewers what the chart detailed: “types of jihad”.

Sudhir Chaudhary is notorious for his shows inciting hate against particular sections in the society. In the particular show, Sudhir had throwing hateful comments on Islam and Muslim communities. That show was widely criticised for the type of journalism which polarise the society and spreading Islamophobia.

From FIR against Sudhir Choudhary

Meanwhile, Zee News TV anchor has been furiously posting oh his twitter how unfair the FIR against him is, he went on to call it his “Pulitzer Prize.”

Gas leak at Andhra Pradesh chemical plant; 8 deaths

A major gas leak at the LG Polymers chemical plant in Visakhapatnam has left eight people dead, including a child. Hundreds of villagers were rushed to nearby hospitals in Visakhapatnam with complaints of headache, vomiting and breathing problems.

The Visakhapatnam gas leak took place at LG Polymers chemical plant around 2.30 am on Thursday. At least eight people have been killed in the incident. Andhra Pradesh Director-General of Police Gautam Sawang confirmed the toll at six. Unconfirmed reports say eight people have been killed in the mishap.

Horrific videos and photos surfacing from the nearby villages show scores of people lying unconscious on the roads. Many were seen trying to reach ambulances with the unconscious children in their arms. Thousands of others have been reported to have fallen sick after inhaling poisonous gas leaked from a chemical factory in Andhra Pradesh’s Visakhapatnam district in the early hours of Thursday.

A National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) team was pressed into service to evacuate people from the nearby colonies. Fire tenders from Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd were trying to reduce the impact of the gas using water.

BJP calls Rahul Gandhi ‘Anti national’ for congratulating Pulitzer Prize winners

The Bharatiya Janata Party targets Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for congratulating three photojournalists who won the Pulitzer Prize, labelling him “anti-national”. Three photojournalists from Jammu and Kashmir – Channi Anand, Mukhtar Khan and Dar Yasin from the Associated Press – were awarded the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for their “striking images of life” in the Kashmir Valley.

“Congratulations to Indian photojournalists Dar Yasin, Mukhtar Khan and Channi Anand for winning a Pulitzer Prize for their powerful images of life in Jammu & Kashmir,” Gandhi had tweeted earlier in the day. “You make us all proud.”

BJP Spokesperson Sambit Patra attacked Gandhi in his tweet, alleging that the three photojournalists believed that Kashmir is a “contested” territory. “Will [Congress President] Sonia Gandhi answer?” Patra asked. “Whether she and the Congress party concur with Rahul Gandhi on the issue of Kashmir not being an integral part of India! Rahul today congratulated those who got an award for considering Kashmir as a ‘Contested Territory’!” Patra also used the hashtag #AntiNationalRahulGandhi.

The photographers captured images of protests, the police, paramilitary action and daily life in Jammu and Kashmir after the complete blackout imposed by central government in August last year in continuation to the abrogation of article 370, making it difficult for the world to know about the region.

The Pulitzer Prize, the most prestigious award in journalism, had been postponed for two weeks due to the coronavirus pandemic.

‘Lost semester’ in DU: Missing campus during pandemic

“Hima, are you in a mood to write something? If so, I need an article.” I have been asked by Hameed ikka two days back. For me this kind of works that comes up occasionally is a way to kill my boredom. ‘Semester loss at Delhi University – Missing campus during pandemic’. That was the subject….. Very simple! I should write about my state of affliction today, in retrospective. 

I was thinking, looking out through the window in the room, Am I really missing college life?  Yes, college was vast from the odious chor galli to the svelte ridge area (forest area). Vast and incredible in every dense. Missing from the hostel room to the class room. Anonymous questions to the extravagance of sleeps in desks. The loneliness under the yellow light in the art faculty to the midnight chatter at sudhamma. AZAADI slogans to the expected detention……

One whole night I was talking to Priyadarshini Ramachandran (PD) and Gopi about this. They were talking rhetorically, a flow of emotions. They were emotional, as the children who were getting worried as if they were lost their play ground. They add some portrait to my writing.

Never in my life had I gone through an academic year so far to be so politically contemporary. Withdrawal of 370 article,   CAA, Delhi riot everything came to be an integral part of class discussions, somewhat as syllabus at times. Campuses are the echoes of Democracy. DU is one of those. Although many sideline it saying as one of the elite institutions. DU is a large group of Young people who have come to Delhi from many parts of Asia and across India to seek higher education. It reflects the presence of students from every strata of society, from top to bottom of the pyramid, which is also a sensitive end of togetherness. 

From lingering questionnaire and debates in the class room to the round table in the canteen ‘ international discussion forums ‘. National, International seminar, uninterrupted paper proposals…… DU can’t breathe without these. From ministers to film stars, scholars to intellectuals they are the regular visitors here. You could hear the beat of drums and pitch of Azaadi at any social studies block or academic block. Here a bevy of students are always busy having intense discussions and debates on Ambedkar, Gandhiji, Nehru, Marx and the contemporary politics. Feminism or LGBTQ right would be the sanctimonious topic for some others. Others indulge in dance or song of their choice. I always find the pulse of a magnanimic campus here. JNU, Jamia and DU are often thought to be the Bronte sisters. Neither of them is alone in their internal matters. They find national attraction and cooperation of above three. It is no paradox that these universities being assaulted in the name of “anti-national or seditious entities”. 

The ideological scourge of the anti national is finally legitimized through the process of paving way for a delinking of the best institutions from state financial support. The actions taken by these three central universities are bountiful whether in the matters of JNU fee hike, CAA, the supports extended to the Shaheenbagh protesters and the voluntary activities done during the Delhi communal riot both psychological and health trauma care. Campuses are the colossus of breathing in the wounded democracy of India.

Universities across the country have been closed as a preventive measure of Covid -19. Within this time period centre had arrested Ananad Teltumbde, Kashmiri Journalist Masrat zahra, Safoora Zargar, Meeran Haider and Umar Khalid pointing to the serious situation of ‘Lock down of Democracy’. The paradox of this period could be witnessed from the inhuman attitude towards that 3 month pregnant lady.

Here I am really worried about those people remaining ignorant about all these with the entry of certain stupid and useless stuffs like clapping plates and lightening lamps. Did it drown with the #productive quarantine efforts? Here it is evident that how much the fascist govt is afraid of the power of discussions in college, the power of student unity. Universities form the 5th pillar of Democracy; sometimes they are even the opposition.The online lecture programme in this COVID-19 era is a commendable move.

Being a first year, college is the choroivle of a lot of new experiences: living away from home, meeting new people and managing your own time. But it is rather difficult to every student for being away from campus and is supposed to run tops and hills to connect internet and being attentive in online classes, sharpening your ears to broken sounds of professors to draft notes and to chase before attendance. Inequality in the accessibility of internet is a university pressure. It has already shown that it might be untenable due to technical and financial reasons. However the initiative required some prerequisite investment to prepare the platforms for successful lecture delivery, but this was not done. The 1.5 mb data is woefully inadequate; thus the program might further impoverish the students who would have no choice but to buy more data to be able to follow the lectures in the cash crunch of this covid period.

Illustration: Meraki Artport (@meraki.arts__)

Delhi University Teachers Association has been through an unprecedented crisis from the last semester. At short notice, the university made it clear that larger section of the teaching staff is being degraded, cutting their salaries short and, now their jobs are no longer secure. The teachers announced an indefinite strike which immediately made stronger impact on the university and the academic arena. Students too extended their solidarity to the faculty.

New Delhi, 2019 Dec 04 (ANI): Delhi University Teachers’ Association (DUTA) members hold placards and shout slogans during a protest outside DU Vice-Chancellor’s office demanding rollback of Aug 28 circular which stops the appointment of ad-hoc teachers, in New Delhi on Wednesday. (ANI Photo)

Since this unexpected break which is now proved to be an indefinite one, the platform for negotiations and settlement talks is   far from practical. All those struggles and strains the teachers face while launching and carrying on with this movement also raises the larger issue of privatisation which has now reached a dead end. Once the college reopens, everything has to be restarted again, a seemingly improbable task of course. No wonder if we find hardly any traces of this strike after this period of lockdown. 

Private airline companies made it clear that they do not refund the amounts to those who booked the tickets in advance. Alternatively, they offered to use the amount for rescheduling the flight. For obvious reasons, this is susceptible to changes if the ticket fare is increased. Being a personal victim of this injustice, I know how absurd this sounds. Airline companies are now in a position of advantage to improve their financial security at the expense of students who are pulled into this for a reason that they had no clear cut role to play.

As the discussions for conducting online exams are on the move,  considerations are to be given respecting the situation of certain students who were forced to abandon their books and study materials back in their residences since there was hardly any air of probability for the mid semester break to be transformed to this lockdown period of chaos and uncertainty. The existing digital divide again discards the opportunity of the students to access online libraries and e catalogues. Thus if online exams are made to happen, it is indeed an obvious kind of discrimination inflicted upon this innocent strata of students.

Starting with a fee hike and actively participating with the protests, even if we did not contribute in a massive way, we have made sure that we were there in most of the protests. And this has been extremely draining emotionally. Our sense of normal has changed along with everything as well. For many, the pandemic is the biggest problem. For us we have been seeing it all since last September. Nevertheless we are just hoping to get our results and also complete this stage of life safely and comfortably, PD said.

The pandemic of patriarchy; lockdown and domestic abuses

Domestic violence is a sad reality even in the present well developed societies. As India is currently under the world’s biggest lockdown with around 1.3 billion people asked to stay home in view of the coronavirus outbreak, which has claimed over 1,300 lives and infected 39,980 people in the country, some inside their homes continue to suffer the trauma of both the pandemic and domestic violence. 

Section 3 of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 defines the term domestic violence as – “Any act, omission or commission or conduct of the respondent shall constitute domestic violence in case it:

•harms or injures or endangers the health, safety, life, limb or well-being, whether mental or physical, of the aggrieved person or tends to do so and includes causing physical abuse, sexual abuse, verbal and emotional abuse and economic abuse 

•harasses, harms, injures or endangers the aggrieved person to coerce her or any other person related to her to meet any unlawful demand for any dowry or other property or valuable security

•has the effect of threatening the aggrieved person or any person related to her by any conduct mentioned 

•otherwise injures or causes harm, whether physical or mental, to the aggrieved person.”
   

India’s National Commission for Women (NCW) on Friday said it registered 587 domestic violence complaints between March 23 and April 16 – a significant surge from 396 complaints received in the previous 25 days between February 27 and March 22.           

Confinement at home with an abusive partner results in both emotional and physical violence against women which is causing a greater consequence beyond the pandemic. Earlier victims of domestic violence are experiencing a great mental correct as many are forced to continue in their homes with the abuses.                   

The state of this ‘Shadow Pandemic’ (as UN Women calls it) is not just for India but is same even among the developed countries during this lockdown. The reports from many countries show that the global cases of violence at home are on rise during the pandemic. France reports 36 % rise in its reports of domestic abuse, China’s helpline calls tripled by last years, and UK has reported a 25 percentage rise in its reports of domestic abuse. 

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres recently called for urgent action on the issue by world leaders suggesting countries must ensure shelters and they must invest in online services and outreach groups and setup emergency warning systems in pharmacies and grocery shops. 

The significant surge in domestic abuse cases around the globe is raising another important question that is it just the result of the frustration due to physical confinement at homes? Or are there many other factors putting fuel to this fire? Recently the website Quartz India suggested that; the increased violence is not just a result of the frustration due to physical confinement.

The pandemic has brought in its wake a global slowdown, massive economic dislocation, closed businesses, the spectre of looming unemployment, often accompanied by the threat of hunger and poverty for what seems to be an indefinite future. While both men and women are affected by the economic downturn, there is evidence from the past that violence against women increases during episodes of high unemployment.

Now let’s realise that diving into long debates may not result in solutions. Rather what we need is a quick fix mechanism.  Formulating healthy and quick addressing services to reach out and help the women facing such trauma will definitely work. We know that many helplines and NGOs are working for this cause and what needs to be done in the first place is to remove the difficulties of these systems in reaching out the needy during the lockdown. Declaring such services as essential services may help in reducing the emergencies. Setting up shelter homes and transferring victims too will help. 

Now looking at the long term solutions, as a son/daughter/mother/father/sister or brother let us look deep whether any sort of behavioural changes can be brought inside the homes. A deep introspection may create some change

AP’s photographers win Pulitzer for Kashmir lockdown coverage

International News agency Associated Press’ photojournalists Dar Yasin, Mukhtar Khan and Channi Anand won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography on Monday for their in Jammu and Kashmir coverage after the Centre abrogated the special status of the erstwhile state under Article 370 of the Indian Constitution.

The Pulitzer Prize, the most prestigious award in journalism, had been postponed for two weeks due to the coronavirus pandemic. Dana Canedy, who administers the awards, delivered the news from her living room via video-conference instead of a ceremony at Columbia University in New York.

AP President and CEO Gary Pruitt said the photographers’ work was important. “This honor continues AP’s great tradition of award-winning photography,” he added. “Thanks to the team inside Kashmir, the world was able to witness a dramatic escalation of the long struggle” for what he described as “the region’s independence”.

Yasin and Khan are based in Kashmir’s city Srinagar and Anand is based in Jammu.

Anand said the award left him speechless. “I was shocked and could not believe it,” he added. “It’s an honour and a privilege beyond any we could have ever imagined,” Yasin tweeted. “It’s overwhelming to receive this honor.”

A masked Kashmiri protester jumps on the bonnet of an armored vehicle of Indian police as he throws stones at it during a protest in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, May 31, 2019. The image was part of a series of photographs by Associated Press photographers which won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Kashmiri Muslim devotees offer prayer outside the shrine of Sufi saint Sheikh Syed Abdul Qadir Jeelani in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Dec. 9, 2019. Hundreds of devotees gathered at the shrine for the 11-day festival that marks the death anniversary of the Sufi saint. The image was part of a series of photographs by Associated Press photographers which won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
An Indian paramilitary soldier stands guard as Kashmiri Muslims offer Friday prayers on a street outside a local mosque during curfew like restrictions in Srinagar, India, Aug. 16, 2019. The image was part of a series of photographs by Associated Press photographers which won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
Kashmiri men shout freedom slogans during a protest against New Delhi’s tightened grip on the disputed region, after Friday prayers on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Aug. 23, 2019. The image was part of a series of photographs by Associated Press photographers which won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Kashmiri villagers grieve near the body of an 11-year-old boy, Aatif Mir, during his funeral procession in Hajin village, north of Srinagar Indian controlled Kashmir, March 22, 2019. Indian security forces killed five militants and the 11-year-old hostage in three separate clashes in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir. The image was part of a series of photographs by Associated Press photographers which won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
A wounded woman is carried on a stretcher for treatment after she was injured in a bus accident, at a local hospital in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, June 27, 2019. A minibus carrying students to a picnic fell into a gorge along a Himalayan road in Indian-controlled Kashmir, killing more than 10 and injuring several others. The image was part of a series of photographs by Associated Press photographers which won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
An Indian Border Security Force (BSF) soldier keeps vigil near the India-Pakistan border, about 35km (22 miles) west of Jammu [Channi Anand/AP]

AP Executive Editor Sally Buzbee said the award is “a testament to the skill, bravery, ingenuity and teamwork of Dar, Mukhtar, Channi and their colleagues”, adding that the journalists’ compelling storytelling shows people the absolute best of what the news organisation does.

Tipu, the unfortunate ruler

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a politician in search of a war is not over-scrupulous with matters of fact. Until recently, the British propaganda offensive against Tipu has determined the way that we – and many Indians – remember him. But, as with more recent dossiers produced to justify pre-emptive military action against mineral-rich Muslim states, the evidence reveals far more about the desires of the attacker than it does about the reality of the attacked.” 

–William Dalrymple                                                                                                                     

In the second half of the 18th century Mysore was considered to be the major power center in South India. Mysore was not under direct control of the Mughals, but it was transformed from a viceroyalty of the Vijayanagar Empire into an autonomous state by the Wodeyar dynasty. Hyder Ali was an ample army man with charismatic leadership who became the ruler of Mysore.

As a brilliant commander he realized the importance of modern army and accordingly he tried to modernize the Mysore army. With the help of the French he strengthened organizational discipline in the army. He extended the boundaries of the Mysore state and he witnessed the hostilities of the Marathas, Hyderabad Nizams and the English.The greatest driving motive of Tipu was to drive the British off India. For this he sacrificed his life and Kingdom, very precisely these actions brought all defamation to the account of Tipu as a fanatical bigot.

Tipu was one of the most innovative and far-sighted rulers of the pre-colonial period. He tried to warn other Indian rulers about the dangers of an increasingly arrogant and aggressive West. He had a universal vision and understanding of the ongoing political condition.

Tomb of Tipu Sultan, his father Hyder Ali and mother Fathima. Srirangapatana

Tipu was very clear about British policies and the justice; and he made a direct encounter with the Wellesley who colored Tipu as a fanatical bigot. Soon after his landing, in April 1798, Wellesley deeply learned the alliance that was being negotiated between Tipu Sultan and the French republic. It has threatened the very existence of British power in India.

One of the major criticisms on Tipu was his violence towards the Kodavas and the Mangalore Christians. Even the Indian historians also blindly followed these criticisms on Tipu Sultan as Western historians did. But the critics were not ready to look at him as an Army man who followed the military strategy. Since Coorge and Mangalore which were borders of the Mysore state, Tipu crushed the two when they joined hands with the British. That tended him to stop pro-British forces violently.

Throughout his life Tipu held the anti-British approach as a ruler and he perpetuated some priorities against the British power. For instance, the concept of ‘harem’ was an important part of royal household of medieval Indian history. It is seen as the epitome of kingly pleasure and time pass. But Tipu abandoned this system as he considered harem system as a matter of self-decline.

British propaganda might portray Tipu as a savage barbarian, but he was more of connoisseur, with a library of about 2,000 volumes in several languages. He had a vision to establish a world class library and university at Shrirangapattanam.

However, Tipu was an unfortunate ruler in Indian history, a great ruler equipped with enough requirements to combat the heavy British tide. Even Napoleon also had written to him from Egypt and promised his arrival, but destiny had her own plans.

Congress will bear migrants’ train fare, says Sonia Gandhi, slams Centre

Sonia Gandhi on Monday attacked the government over stranded migrant workers by the nationwide coronavirus lockdown demanding to pay for their train ride home. And Congress president declared that the Congress would pay the train fare for them. “This will be the Indian National Congress’ humble contribution in service of our compatriots and to stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity with them,” the Congress president said in a letter this morning.

“Our workers and labourers are the ambassadors of our nation’s growth. When our Government can recognise its responsibility by arranging free air travel for our citizens stranded abroad, when the Government can spend nearly Rs. 100 crores on transport and food etc. for just one public programme in Gujarat, when the Rail Ministry has the largesse to donate Rs. 151 Crores to the PM’s Corona fund, then why can’t these essential members of our nation’s fabric be given a fraction of the same courtesy, especially free rail travel, at this hour of acute distress?”

Sonia Gandhi slammed the central government pointing that the centre barely gave a four-hour notice of the lockdown, so workers and migrant labourers were denied the opportunity to return to their homes. “Post the partition of 1947, this is the first time India witnessed a tragedy with such a massive human cost as thousands of migrant workers and labourers were forced to walk home several hundred kilometres on foot – without food, without medicines, without money, without transportation, without anything except for the desire to return to their families and loved ones,” she wrote.

Even today, she said, lakhs of workers and migrant labourers were “languishing in different parts of the country” and wished to return to their homes and families but didn’t have money or free transport. “What is particularly disturbing is that the Central Government and the Rail Ministry are charging them for train tickets in this hour of crisis,” the Congress president noted.

She said the centre and the railways ministry had chosen to completely ignore the Congress’s repeated demands.

“The Indian National Congress has, therefore, taken a decision that every Pradesh Congress Committee shall bear the cost for the rail travel of every needy worker and migrant labourer and shall take necessary steps in this regard,” she said.

“We do not get scared easily” Safoora’s sister writes an emotional open letter

Sameeya Zargar, sister of Safoora Zargar writes an emotional open letter to her sister who is in Tihar jail after being booked under several charges including ‘the draconian law’ UAPA. “…We do not get scared easily. Sorry but no matter how excruciatingly hard this is, I won’t let myself believe that you or us cannot take it” the letter posted in Sameeya’s twitter account reads.

“The lockdown situation has done its part in making contact with you all the more difficult and the process isn’t a cakewalk either” Sameeya writes. She hopes that her sister will overcome this time, writing: ” I know you’ll top this like all those exams and make the rest of us look like fools.”

Read the full letter

OPEN LETTER

Hey Safoo di

It’s been too many days since we have spoken. In fact, this must be the longest we’d ever go without fighting with each other actually. First things first, our family is doing okay- scared, in anticipation, sometimes crying but its part of the process don’t worry.

The lockdown situation has done its part in making contact with you all the more difficult and the process isn’t a cakewalk either. In fact, it’s almost like a slow death. But mamma-papa made us the feisty girls we are for a reason. We do not get scared easily. Sorry but no matter how excruciatingly hard this is, I won’t let myself believe that you or us cannot take it. I know you’ll top this like all those exams and make the rest of us look like fools.

I am sure you are wondering where life took you.. me too (I’m penning this down at 3 am so). But it’s also shown me the unbelievable strength we have to be able to get through this with sanity. You’ve always laughed at my over-optimism and guess what, shockingly, even after all this fighting the fight, I think we’ll be just fine.

You are the strongest person I know and now I have seen so many people be strong for you. I am taking lessons from memories of you having courage. Of being resilient. Of being kind. Of welcoming everyone. Of being so so brave. That’s what I have been trying to do and failing pretty badly. It led me to the realization that it takes too much to be you. In the sliver of hope that this might reach you God knows how, I want you to know we are here, we are praying and we will see this through.

P.S: Awaiting your 3 am Maggie demands. Hang in there bhai

Love,
Sameeya

Safoora Zargar was arrested by Delhi Police for allegedly being the conspirator of North East Delhi riots. 27 years old student leader and a research scholar from Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) was associated with Jamia Coordination Committee, leading Anti-CAA protests in Jamia Millia Islamia Central University.

Along with UAPA, Safoora has been charged with 18 criminal activities including rioting, possession of arms, attempt to murder, incitement of violence, sedition, murder, and promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion.

Police accused Safoora of being a key “conspirator” in the Delhi pogrom that erupted in 2020 February. The pogrom is widely acknowledged to have been sparked by violence instigating comments made by Kapil Mishra, a BJP leader, about Muslims peacefully protesting against ‘anti-Muslim and unconstitutional’ citizenship law. Video evidence and witness accounts pointed to police allowing Hindu mobs to roam the streets freely to target the Muslim community.

Several human rights watch organisations including Amnesty International have demanded the release of Safoora. Students, teachers, activists and Artists are also protesting against the ‘witch-hunting’ of anti-CAA protesters.