Umang Poddar

Former Bilingual Correspondent at Collective Newsroom. reporting for @BBCWorld | prev @scroll_in and @lawctopus | DM for leads/ideas.

[m rajshekhar @mrajshekhar]

Here it is. Your mustread report of the day. Striking details in here.
https://t.co/XMn6rA98Iv

[naresh fernandes @tajmahalfoxtrot]

Juhu floating hoarding, 2022.

[Umang Poddar @UmangPod]

@khanthefatima @BloomsburyIndia Congratulations, @khanthefatima !!

[Apar Gupta @apar1984]

People can have differences and nuanced takes on CJP but it is inexcusable to remain silent on the custody of Ashutosh and Saurav. This is an egregious violation of a citizen's liberty. Please speak up. If not on principle, than in self-interest, for this is setting a precedent.

[Dhanya Rajendran @dhanyarajendran]

Hello @DelhiPolice. You haven’t replied. Normally you would say this is fake news. So please say this is fake news, camera returned duly to owner, it was taken away my mistake.

Waiting patiently

Yours truly

[Ratna Singh @whattalawyer]

#BREAKING: Delhi Police arrests Saurav Das, Ashutosh Ranka, and Ajinkya Shinde at Parliament Street Police Station in today’s Jantar Mantar case.

Trespass, bond violation, obstruction of public official’s duty, etc.

They’ll be produced before the SCM Court in the morning. A possibility of Judicial Custody (JC) in the Tihar Jail is possible.

They were not allowed to meet their lawyers till late at night. They were brought to Parliament Street PS at 3 AM in a private van.

Despite these illegal actions, their spirits are high.

@Cockroachisback

[Dhanya Rajendran @dhanyarajendran]

This is an exhaustive list of accounts from journalists who were either detained, assaulted, or had their equipment damaged by the Delhi Police. There are around 30 accounts in total, with direct quotes from almost all of them.

https://t.co/Bgc9yz1hAj

[Ayush Tiwari @sighyush]

Meet assistant sub-inspector Kapil Kumar, who detained and assaulted a Caravan journalist at CP yesterday.

Details: https://t.co/lMu9VaOmKG

[John Brittas @JohnBrittas]

Manhandled, dragged, assaulted n misbehaved inside a police vehicle and dumped by the roadside - for the crime of speaking to the media.

This is not merely an assault on an MP. It is an assault on democratic freedoms and the rule of law. More chillingly, it happened within hours of the Supreme Court issuing directions to safeguard peaceful protest and constitutional rights.

I have written to the Hon’ble President of India @rashtrapatibhvn , the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha @VPIndia and the Chief Justice of India seeking urgent intervention and fixing accountability for the police personnel, and action on the question of parliamentary privilege.

The Government cannot intimidate democracy into silence. It cannot substitute the force of the baton for the force of debate. And it shouldn’t expect the people to surrender their constitutional freedoms merely because those in power find dissent inconvenient. The strength of a democracy lies not in its capacity to suppress dissent, but in its ability to address it.

[Bar and Bench @barandbench]

NLSIU Alumni Association issues statement condemning condemning the police action against peaceful protestors and the detention and manhandling of Senior Advocate Shadan Farasat by Delhi Police yesterday.

[Sreenivasan Jain @SreenivasanJain]

Protestors bundled into barricaded vans meant for criminals or undertrials. Reports of protestors being beaten inside vans, their phones taken away. The Delhi Police's repressive measures seem to be worsening, even as right-wing mobs are given a free hand.

[Paras Nath Singh @parasnsingh95]

Forget about everything—the metro, the train, the detention, etc.

The court didn’t even once say that they were disturbed by the visuals of lawyers being dragged and manhandled. They didn’t even ask why the policemen or policewomen were not wearing their name badges.

This was the bare minimum expected of the court.

[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. ⬇️

[Rofl Gandhi 2.0 🏹 Commentary @RoflGandhi_]

पूरा वीडियो अंत तक देखिए

निहत्थे छोटे छोटे बच्चों को 6-6 बैरिकेड लगाकर रोकने वाली दिल्ली पुलिस हथियारों और डंडों से भरी गाड़ी को गुंडों समेत सेफ्टी से निकाल रही है।

पत्रकार और पास खड़े लोग बार बार पुलिस के जवानों को गाड़ी की तलाशी लेने को कहते हैं, लेकिन वो उसे भगा देते हैं।

[Mahua Moitra @MahuaMoitra]

Bravo Shadan Farasat - you have done your Senior gown proud today. Hope the rest of your fraternity walk the talk @SCBA_INDIA

[Narendra Nath Mishra @iamnarendranath]

न्यूयॉर्क टाइम्स की तस्वीर। भारत के प्रोटेस्ट की।

[Jahnavi Sen @jahnavi_sen]

@thewire_in Some of the buses Delhi Police is using to detain those protesting against the chief election commissioner are marked ‘election duty’. @thewire_in

[Supriya Sharma @sharmasupriya]

Now @scroll_in's political editor Shoaib Daniyal detained by the police near CR Park.

He was not even in Central Delhi.

[T. Prashant Reddy @Preddy85]

Between the COVID lockdown and these random restrictions today, it is quite clear that our Constitution does not really need any provisions pertaining to the declaration of an Emergency. The state can do what it wants under normal criminal law, the courts cannot do anything.

[Umashankar Singh उमाशंकर सिं��� @umashankarsingh]

New Delhi, India. 10th Oct 2026

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