A Timeline of the Delhi Riots: Arson, Shooting and Police Indifference

A look at how the last week has unfolded.

The Wire Staff

A look at how the last week has unfolded.

a timeline of the delhi riots arson shooting and police indifference

A car garage owned by a Hindu man was burnt down in Shiv Vihar. Photo: Kabir Agarwal

New Delhi: Early this week, riots broke out in parts of North East Delhi. Forty-two people have lost their lives so far, and close to 200 injured.

The violence began after Bharatiya Janata Party leader Kapil Mishra lashed out at anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act sit-in protests in the area, giving the Delhi Police a three-day "ultimatum" to clear them.

Here's a look at how the violence unfolded in Delhi, the scale of what has happened, and what the police and politicians have (and haven't) done.

This article went live on February twenty-eighth, two thousand twenty, at thirty minutes past eight in the evening.

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