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The Delhi High Court has dismissed the bail petitions of activists Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam and eight others accused of being part of a “larger conspiracy” linked to the riots that broke out in the national capital in 2020. The activists were arrested five years ago and booked under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act.

A bench of Justices Navin Chawla and Shalinder Kaur turned down the bail petitions of Khalid, Imam, Mohd Saleem Khan, Shifa Ur Rehman, Athar Khan, Meeran Haider, Abdul Khalid Saifi and Gulfisha Fatima. Another division bench of Justices Subramonium Prasad and Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar rejected the bail petition of Tasleem Ahmed.

The accused persons were all arrested between January and September 2020 in connection with the clashes that broke out in North East Delhi in February 2020 between supporters of the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act and those opposing it. The violence had left 53 dead and hundreds injured. Most of those killed were Muslims. Read more.

The price that Umar Khalid is paying for dissenting in Modi’s India

Activist Manoj Jarange-Patil has ended his five-day hunger strike after receiving a copy of a government resolution to give Kunbi status to Marathas of Maharashtra’s Marathwada region. The Kunbis form a sub-caste within the Maratha community and are included in the Other Backward Classes.

Accepting the government’s proposal, Jarange-Patil declared victory and said that six out of his eight demands had been met. He had earlier said that protesters led by him would leave Mumbai by 9 pm if the government were to issue such a resolution.

On August 29, Jarange-Patil launched an indefinite hunger strike to reiterate his demand for reservations in government jobs and educational institutions for the Marathas under the Other Backward Classes category. He has demanded that Kunbi caste certificates be provided to all Marathas. Read more.

The Bharat Rashtra Samithi has suspended its MLC K Kavitha from the outfit for her alleged “ongoing anti-party activities”. The party stated that the decision was taken by Kavitha’s father and BRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao.

The action came a day after a row erupted in Telangana as Kavitha accused her cousins, former minister T Harish Rao and ex-MP J Santosh Rao, of amassing assets while making her father and party chief K Chandrasekhar Rao a “scapegoat” in the alleged Kaleshwaram project scam.

Earlier in the day, Chief Minister Revanth Reddy announced in the Assembly that the probe into the alleged irregularities in the construction of the lift irrigation project will be handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation. Read more.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that even if he forgives the Congress and the Rashtriya Janata Dal for “insulting his mother”, the people of India have never tolerated such abuse.

These were the prime minister’s first comments on an incident from August 27, when a man was heard purportedly using a Hindi expletive against Modi, from a dais set up for the Opposition’s “Voter Adhikar Yatra” in Bihar’s Darbhanga town.

Before the incident, Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav had left the venue.

Modi also urged the people of Bihar “to ensure accountability for this insult”. Read more.

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