Jahangirpuri riots

  NEW DELHI: Two more accused have been arrested by the Delhi Police Crime Branch on Thursday in connection with the April 16 Jahangipuri violence case. The arrested persons have been identified as Jafar and Babuddin, said officials who wished not to be named. The arrest came days after the police arrested Ansar, one of […]

NEW DELHI: Delhi Police Commissioner Rakesh Asthana has written to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to investigate charges of money laundering against Ansar, the prime accused in the Jahangirpuri violence that left nine people injured on Saturday, sources said. “The Delhi police commissioner has written a letter to the ED asking it to take action under […]

NEW DELHI: Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Brinda Karat and AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi visited violence-hit Jahangirpuri where the North Delhi Municipal Corporation razed several “illegal” shops on Wednesday, with Karat standing in the front of a bulldozer to stop the demolition. First to visit the area was Karat, who reached there in the […]

NEW DELHI/KOLKATA: A team of the Delhi Police Crime Branch on Wednesday reached West Bengal’s Haldia to identify one of the persons accused in the case of Saturday’s violent clashes that allegedly erupted after stone-pelting on Hanuman Jayanti Shobha Yatra. A senior police official wishing not to be named told The New Indian that a […]

  NEW DELHI: The residents of Jahangirpuri, whose shops were razed by the North Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) on Wednesday morning lamented that the demolition of their main source of income has left them worried for their children. Many people complained that their shops were razed by authorities despite them having papers issued by […]

NEW DELHI: On Wednesday, Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) carried out a demolition drive against encroachment by removing illegal constructions in Delhi’s strife-torn Jahangirpuri area. Communal clashes had broken out in the area last week during a Hanuman Jayanti procession. However, after the Supreme Court’s order to halt the drive, the demolition was stopped. North […]

  DELHI: BJP-ruled North Delhi Municipal Corporation is going to carry out a two-day anti-encroachment drive in Jahangirpuri area where violent clashes broke out allegedly following stone-pelting on Hanuman Jayanti Shobha Yatra on Saturday. The encroachment removal drive will be conducted on Wednesday and Thursday. The development was confirmed by a letter from the MCD […]

  NEW DELHI: Moving ahead in its probe into the Jahangirpuri violence, the Delhi Police have arrested another accused who allegedly supplied firearms to accused Yunus aka Sonu Chikna, and charged five accused including him under stringent NSA, it said on Tuesday. The Delhi Police has also charged five accused arrested under the stringent national […]

  NEW DELHI: Three days after the violence erupted during the Hanuman Shobha Yatra in northwest Delhi’s Jahangirpuri, the police on Tuesday said that main accused Anshar along with other at least four others fought with the people participating in the ‘peaceful’ yatra. Till 6 pm on the Saturday, everything was going on peacefully. Two […]

NEW DELHI: National commission for minorities chief Iqbal Singh Lalpura, a representative of the Centre, on Monday sought to address concerns of the overwhelming population of Muslims of Jahangirpuri  neighbourhood of Delhi in the wake of the Saturday clash, saying no “innocent person will be challaned” but minced no words on attacks on policemen with […]