Jahangirpuri violence

  NEW DELHI: A minor boy along with three of his accomplices has been apprehended for allegedly opening fire at a 36-year-old man in full public view in northwest Delhi’s Jahangirpuri in a revenge attack. As per the Delhi Police, the victim had beaten up the father of one of the apprehended teenagers around seven […]

  NEW DELHI: Three months after the incident of violence engulfed Jahangirpuri, life appeared to be back to normal as The New Indian visited the area on Thursday – The day when Delhi Police filed a 2063-page charge sheet. The New Indian visited the same spot – Kushal Chowk – which witnessed stone pelting from […]

NEW DELHI: Jahangirpuri violence was the continuation of the protest against CAA and NRC and Delhi Riots, Delhi Police said in its 2063-page charge sheet filed on Thursday. The charge sheet was filed by the Crime Branch in which it was said that a total of 37 persons were arrested and eight were still absconding. […]

  NEW DELHI: Three more people have been arrested in connection with the violence that rocked Jahangirpuri area allegedly after stone-pelting at Hanuman Jayanti Shobha Yatra on April 16. At least nine people including seven policemen were injured in the violence that created a divide between the Hindu and Muslim communities in the area. With […]

KOLKATA/NEW DELHI: In an important development, Delhi Police has arrested a key accused in the Jahangirpuri violence case from Bengal on Thursday, who is also one of the key accused along with Mohammad Ansar, who was already under custody. “We have arrested Mohammad Farid (the arrested accused) from Bengal,” a Delhi Police official, told The […]

  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: India’s financial probe agency, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday initiated an investigation into the money laundering angle in the  Jahangirpuri communal violence case. “The ED has registered a case of money laundering to probe the angle of funding through various channels to the accused named in the FIR (in the Jahangirpuri […]

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: A 15-member delegation of the Congress on Thursday visited violence-hit Jahangirpuri on Thursday but was stopped by the police from meeting people in the locality where the North Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) carried out an anti-encroachment drive on Wednesday. Former Union minister Ajay Maken, AICC in-charge of Delhi Congress Shaktisinh Gohil, and […]

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 […]