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"The govt should see this person has been voting for so long"
Delhi voter Mohammad Yameen said that both his parents passed away in 1987, which is why he couldn’t map himself to the 2002 electoral roll
@_sabahgurmat reporting from a public audit of the #SIR in Trilokpuri, Delhi
“Hindutva lawfare on steroids”
A journalist accuses an ACP of sexual assault, and the FIR registered is against her. @nidahkaiser, @prannv99 and @_sabahgurmat on how the victim becomes the aggressor
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"Doctor Babu is like a mobile hospital. He lives in a tiled hut. He visits households & provides free treatment"
Odisha police arrested Randall Sequeira, a doctor who serves Adivasi communities & supports the anti-mining movement. @Ayaskant_Das has this profile
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Neighbourhood disputes
Action against journalists
‘Drinking tea suspiciously’
CJP leaders @SauravDassss & @AshutoshRanka were the latest to be sent to jail by a police officer using powers under #Modi govt’s new criminal-procedure law
Decades of court rulings have warned against "disproportionate use” of such colonial-era preventive powers. Yet the BNSS retains them, writes @surbhi_karwa
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"Why were we deleted?"
Ramesh, a long-time #Delhi voter, said “13 or 14 members” of his family were deleted. He didn’t receive any notice. He found out 3 days ago through volunteer groups helping deleted voters in the national capital
@_sabahgurmat reporting from Trilokpuri
"Doctor Babu is like a mobile hospital. He lives in a tiled hut. He visits households & provides free treatment"
Odisha police arrested Randall Sequeira, a doctor who serves Adivasi communities & supports the anti-mining movement. @Ayaskant_Das has this profile
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She complained of sexual assault by an ACP. 10 days later, an FIR was registered against her, not him
@nidahkaiser, @prannv99 & @_sabahgurmat on how India’s police “unmake” a victim, recasting the person harmed as the offender
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"Why were we deleted?"
Ramesh, a long-time #Delhi voter, said “13 or 14 members” of his family were deleted. He didn’t receive any notice. He found out 3 days ago through volunteer groups helping deleted voters in the national capital
@_sabahgurmat reporting from Trilokpuri
"His dedication to the cause of serving humanity is infectious"
Odisha police have arrested Randall Sequeira, a doctor who serves Adivasi communities & supports the anti-mining movement
Police claim he has been instigating tribals
@Ayaskant_Das has this profile
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Between July 2017 & June 2018, Delhi police arrested 23,012 people under preventive-policing provisions, with 6,944 sent to judicial custody
CJP leaders @SauravDassss & @AshutoshRanka were sent to jail under these same colonial-era powers retained in #Modi govt’s new criminal laws, writes @surbhi_karwa
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"Everyone is worried"
Asra Khatoon, 47, her husband & two sons were deleted from the electoral roll
@_sabahgurmat reporting from the people's audit of the #SIR, a camp to help deleted voters organised by volunteer groups in Trilokpuri, Delhi, today
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He said he had received no notification.
His BLO had assured him that his paperwork was complete. He was "relaxed"
Today, while visiting a park where a volunteer group had set up a camp for complaints over #SIR voter deletions, Anurag, 30, who has voted 3 times, discovered that he & his family members had been marked as “not available"
@_sabahgurmat reporting from Trilokpuri, Delhi
Thousands reportedly detained. Protesters allegedly held in remote locations. Women alleging sexual harassment by officers
@nidahkaiser, @prannv99 & @_sabahgurmat argue Delhi police response to Gen Z protests shows how autocratic policing works: force, mass detention, then criminalisation
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“The Opposition is united, voting is the right of every citizen…this right is being snatched from crores of people”, @RahulGandhi said at the people's audit of the #SIR in Trilokpuri, Delhi, today
@_sabahgurmat reporting
"Everyone is worried"
Asra Khatoon, 47, her husband & two sons were deleted from the electoral roll
@_sabahgurmat reporting from the people's audit of the #SIR, a camp to help deleted voters organised by volunteer groups in Trilokpuri, Delhi, today
The @Cockroachisback‘s @SauravDassss & @AshutoshRanka were sent to jail by a police officer acting as executive magistrate. #Modi govt says its new criminal laws “decolonise” justice. Yet the BNSS retains colonial provisions that allow such detention, writes @surbhi_karwa
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"He came to this area for a fellowship, but realised there is a much deeper malaise"
Odisha police arrest Dr Randall Sequeira, who works with Adivasis & backs anti-mining protests. Police accuse him of instigating tribals
@Ayaskant_Das profiles him & his work
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India’s policing has “unmade” the victim into the offender. As journalist Rosy’s case shows, a complaint of sexual assault by Delhi police ACP Vivek Bhagat can end in a counter-FIR against the accuser. @nidahkaiser, @prannv99, @_sabahgurmat explain
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Happening now: Congress leader @RahulGandhi at the people’s audit of the #SIR organised today in Trilokpuri by volunteer groups to help deleted voters
@_sabahgurmat reports from the ground in #Delhi