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1. The Delhi Police has given vastly divergent figures about the number of deaths in February's communal violence— and the number of arrests it made while probing it—to the home ministry and in response to an RTI. But the police's opacity doesn't end there https://bit.ly/2xSU4nk
2. The Delhi Police reported 52 deaths due to the communal violence in February to the home ministry but cited the much lower figure of 23 deaths in its reply to an RTI application filed by Venkatesh Nayak of @CHRI_INT https://bit.ly/2xSU4nk
3. There is a similar lack of clarity and transparency about the numbers and other details of the people the delhi police arrested in connection with the communal violence in north-east Delhi. https://bit.ly/2xSU4nk
4. Junior home minister G. Kishan Reddy, in response to specific questions from three Rajya Sabha MPs about the number of people arrested, wrote that “3,304 persons have been arrested/detained”, basing this on information provided by the city police. https://bit.ly/2xSU4nk
But the Delhi Police, in response to an RTI application by @CHRI_INT's CHRI Nayak, who asked for a list of people arrested in connection with the communal violence, wrote, “Total 48 persons have been arrested in communal violence in Delhi.” https://bit.ly/2xSU4nk
Interestingly, on March 12, Delhi Police PRO MS Randhawa told reporters in a briefing that “over 200” people had been arrested “and this number will further increase”. Why is the police not fully transparent with its numbers about the communal violence? https://bit.ly/2xSU4nk
