Subhrojyoti M

Editor; books etc.

[Sushant Singh @SushantSin]

Insane. Good of @neha_aisa and other student leaders to refuse signing such an undemocratic measure.

[The Siasat Daily @TheSiasatDaily]

A 36-minute documentary accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi and industrialist Gautam Adani of corruption and cronyism is circulating widely on X (formerly Twitter), days after Mumbai Police served notices on at least 24 users for sharing it.

The film, titled “How Adani and Modi stole India”, was made by Sabeer Bhatia, the Indian-American entrepreneur who co-founded Hotmail. According to Hindustan Times, it questions business dealings, land allocations and government decisions over two decades, and alleges corruption, collusion and corporate cronyism. The allegations in the film have not been established in any judicial finding.

Disclaimer: This post reports on a documentary circulating on social media and on the Mumbai Police notices linked to it. The allegations made in the film have not been proven in any court. https://t.co/APhoKA9g9R is only reporting the news and not accusing any individual or company.

[Sushant Singh @SushantSin]

If the roles of investigator, prosecutor, and adjudicator are blended in a single agency, can the process be considered fair, independent, and reasonable?

When Police Act As Magistrate : The Bizarre Case Of Special Executive Magistrates @manuvichar

https://t.co/3XIr5rzdGh

[Arindam Majumder @ari_maj]

It's not only the pandals. Delhi police and paramilitary forces suddenly came out in full force with sirens blaring & cleared entire CR Park at 11 PM

On being asked it multiple officials of @DelhiPolice said permission has been granted only till 11 PM

Quite surreal to see such scenes in Durga Puja

[Paranjoy Guha Thakurta @paranjoygt]

From Prof Biswajit Dhar, a resident of Chittaranjan Park: Yesterday (Saturday 17 October) evening, about 20 CRPF jawans armed with lathis marched into the B Block Puja Pandal in CR Park at 11.30 pm, when large number of people were celebrating the festival with family and friends. The Puja Committee members strongly protested against this intrusion and chased them out. I took this video when they were outside the main gate. Several of us lent our voices in support of the Puja Committee members arguing that any police interference in our most important festival was just not acceptable. Durga Puja is not a festival for only the Bengalis, but all other communities also get together to enjoy themselves. This is what I have seen for as long I can remember. Why then were paramilitary forces sent to spoil the atmosphere in such a festival? Should we now expect intimidation by the paramilitary forces whenever we congregate? We must demand answers before it is too late.

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

A narrative is being set that it was because of protesters that shopkeepers are forced to shut their shops. But local journalists covering the protest say, Protestors, scores of them were buying stuff from local shops. It was the police that asked the shopkeepers to shut down their shops for “some time.” This was at Mandi House yesterday.

[Catty @CatWomaniya]

“Women helpline”

[churumuri @churumuri]

🕉️ Ramlila Maidan: Rs 60,000 per day
🕉️ CBD Ground: Rs 90,000 per day
🕉️ Burari Ground: Rs 90,000 per day

When 'dhandho' is the order of the day, even staging (or taking part in) a protest costs money

Delhi's new sites are 4, 13 and 16 km away from Jantar Mantar @timesofindia

[disha verma @di_shawarma]

🚨 UPDATE

The detainees are being released after HOURS of extrajudicial torture & detention. This group of 50-60 detainees INCLUDES MINORS.

SPREAD THIS STORY EVERYWHERE. Let it bring us global shame.

Shame on you @DelhiPolice @AmitShah. Anyone with dignity would resign now.

[disha verma @di_shawarma]

Here is what we need right now:

ALL EYES ON PANDWALA KHURD COMMUNITY CENTRE.

A hostile crowd is now forming outside the centre. Cops are feral. Everyone is on high alert.

We need to ensure the detainees make it out ALIVE, if not unscathed.

REPOST AND CIRCULATE THIS NOW.

[disha verma @di_shawarma]

Some brave detainees found a phone & called us with these updates. But they're scared that if seen with phones, they will be tortured again.

As of 9.15 PM, doctors are enroute Pandwalan Khurd. They will be delayed by closures in Central Delhi and other state forces.

[disha verma @di_shawarma]

Remember, no detainee had their phones on them. They had NO IDEA where they were.

They had been on the road for hours. Beaten up. Several fractures. Dizzy. Scared for their lives. This includes MINORS.

Shortly after, @DelhiPolice cut off electricity at the community centre.

[disha verma @di_shawarma]

This bus circled around Kapashera and Najafgarh for an hour. They knew lawyers were waiting for them at Kapashera and Chhawla PS.

They touched Chhawla PS by 6.53 PM & fled promptly.

By 7.30 PM, they touch Pandwalan Gaon. By 8 PM, they were forced into a community centre there.

[disha verma @di_shawarma]

The detainees were told, time and again, that nothing will happen to them if they cooperated.

They did. And then they got brutalised. One by one, in those tiny bus compartments—everyone was hit.

An officer identified to lead this extrajudicial violence is named ARVIND KUMAR.

[disha verma @di_shawarma]

They then profiled & selected some detainees and took them into buses used for convicts, with tiny compartments & no airflow.

@DelhiPolice then BEAT THEM UP, black & blue. It was described to us as "merciless thrashing" with only screams escaping that suffocating, jail-like bus.

[disha verma @di_shawarma]

Peaceful protestors were detained from CP & taken to LIC—in a space sealed off from lawyers, journalists, crowds.

They were made to kneel down in a row. Cops frisked them & physically snatched all their phones.

One by one, they deleted videos and photos, and kept their phones.

[disha verma @di_shawarma]

This is the most horrific detention story you will hear today.

At 8 PM, this bus stopped at a community centre in Pandwalan Khurd (see photo).

Detainees fractured. Four minors present. Everyone barbarically beaten up. No lawyers allowed to enter.

This is how we got here. ⬇️

[Adil Hossain @adilhossain]

To remind everyone again, whatever is happening today is the result of miscarriage of Justice from CJI Bench on the SIR case on West Bengal. Esp when they said, “let them vote next time”

Supreme Court denied political citizenship to millions which it meant to protect!

[vir sanghvi @virsanghvi]

Most middle class people say this is taxation without representation. Even if they have Aadhaar cards, PAN cards &
Passports they still don’t have a right to vote.
The fact that so many of us have received notices from the EC proves that the govt & its stooges believe that when it comes to robbing us blind with taxes the government regards us as Indians
But when it comes to choosing politicians at elections we are foreigners until we prove otherwise.
And then passports, PAN cards & Aadhar cards are suddenly not enough to prove we are Indian.

[Gabbar @Gabbar0099]

"Umar khalid completes six-years in Jail without trial"