: Delhi riots: HC criticises police on probe into death of Muslim man forced to sing national anthem #IndiaNEWS The Delhi High Court on Tuesday observed that the city’s police’s status report detailing

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Delhi riots: HC criticises police on probe into death of Muslim man forced to sing national anthem #IndiaNEWS
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday observed that the city’s police’s status report detailing the investigation undertaken into the death of a 23-year-old Muslim man during the 2020 communal violence had nothing substantial in it, PTI reported.Fifty-three people were killed and hundreds more injured in the rioting that broke out in North East Delhi between February 23 and February 26, 2020, after protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act triggered a violent backlash against Muslim protestors. At least 38 of those killed were Muslim. A video shot on February 24, 2020, showed policemen beating up the man named Faizan, and four others, while ordering them to sing the national anthem and chant “Vande Mataram�. Faizan was then allegedly detained at the Jyoti Nagar police station. He died soon after he was released.The police submitted a status report in a sealed cover on its investigation into the case.Faizan’s mother Kismatun had filed a plea before the High Court seeking an inquiry by a Special Investigation Team. Kismatun claimed that the police had illegally detained her son and denied him critical health care due to which he succumbed to his injuries.On Tuesday, Justice Mukta Gupta of the High Court said that the status report submitted by the police was “neither here nor...Read more

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