DH Toon | Crossroads: Message in a probe gone wrong in Delhi riots

Delhi riots: Message in a probe gone wrong

Some 751 FIRs registered, 340 cases ‘solved’, 250 charge sheets filed against 1,153 accused, 12 pistols, 121 empty cartridges, 92 live cartridges, 61 glass bottles filled with noxious chemicals and an assortment of sharp-edged weapons used in the riots that ravaged north-east Delhi in late February seized. In the normal course, one should not find fault with such statistics in an investigation into communal violence but Delhi Police is facing tough questions on the way it is conducting the probe.

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