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Three months after the Delhi pogrom, no FIRs have been made public by the police. Thread on what we know from pogroms before, and why this matters for what we can expect now
https://twitter.com/VijaytaL/status/1264058526697021440
https://twitter.com/VijaytaL/status/1264058526697021440
In all-too-familiar patterns, the police has clubbed FIRs and picked up those who complained of themselves being victims in the violence (1/n) https://scroll.in/article/962526/in-delhi-violence-investigation-a-disturbing-pattern-victims-end-up-being-arrested-by-police
PUDR recently wrote about the official re-scripting of the riots - aggressive investigation in some cases and willful inaction in others. (2/n) https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/rescripting-north-east-delhi-riots-and-the-question-of-justice/article31597139.ece
In its rejoinder, the police blamed PUDR for relying only on a few FIRs. But the reason PUDR has only some FIRs is that the police hasn't made any public. (3/n) https://twitter.com/DelhiPolice/status/1261653724885184513?s=20
Why is this important? Because of everything we've learned from previous pogroms. (4/n)
Clubbed or omnibus FIRs were common in the aftermath of Gujarat https://www.pudr.org/index.php/maaro-kaapo-baalo-state-society-and-communalism-gujarat (5/n)
An analysis of 418 FIRs from '84 showed unclear FIRs, and FIRs lodged under inappropriate sections https://idl-bnc-idrc.dspacedirect.org/bitstream/handle/10625/49277/IDL-49277.pdf?sequence=1 (6/n)
From Delhi, the reports are nascent still. But they're there. Of complainants refusing to file complaints because they've lost trust in the police https://caravanmagazine.in/conflict/media-focus-ankit-sharma-tahir-hussain-subsumed-brutalisation-muslims-khajoori-khas (7/n)
Of injured persons arrested, with the lockdown serving as a convenient pretext to deny them access to their legal rights https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/families-worried-as-riot-related-arrests-could-lead-to-contracting-covid-19/article31448655.ece (8/n)
The police is allowed to claim that certain FIRs are too sensitive to be uploaded online. But without any transparency, we remain in the dark about what justice will look like after Delhi '20.
