A BJP Lok Sabha candidate seen with a Trinamool Congress leader on Monday has been asked by his leadership to explain the meeting in a showcause notice. Anupam Hazra, the BJP candidate in Jadavpur, reportedly had lunch with Trinamool leader Anubrata Mondal at Birbhum, where he voted on Monday. The meeting has embarrassed the party on a day Prime Minister Narendra Modi, at a rally in Bengal, declared that "40 Trinamool legislators" are in touch with him and ready to leave Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's party.

Amid violent clashes in various parts northeast Delhi, a&nbsp;video clip doing the rounds of social media, purportedly shows&nbsp;Delhi Police personnel allegedly breaking a CCTV camera near the Khureji&nbsp;Khas protest site in northeast Delhi. The protest at Khureji was cleared out by the police on Wednesday. The video shared by several on Twitter, including members of the Aam Aadmi Party, shows policemen hitting at a white object attached to a pillar outside the Hindustan Petroleum Gas Station at Khureji.

The number of deaths in northeast Delhi violence has crossed 28, with 2 deaths reported from Delhi's LNJP&nbsp;hospital and 26 in GTB&nbsp;hospital. Arson and violence was reported from&nbsp;Bhajanpura, Maujpur and Karawal Nagar areas on Wednesday, even after&nbsp;National Security Advisor Ajit Doval visited violence-affected areas of the national capital and guaranteed the people that the&nbsp;government would restore peace. Over 200 people have been injured after four straight days of clashes over the citizenship law.&nbsp;Delhi Police has filed 18 FIRs and arrested 106 people in connection with the violence that started on Sunday.&nbsp;

Delhi High Court judge Justice S Muralidhar, who on Wednesday grilled the centre, the state government and the Delhi Police over the violence in the national capital,&nbsp;has been transferred to the Punjab and Haryana High Court. The notification of the transfer of&nbsp;Justice Muralidhar,&nbsp;was issued on Wednesday night by the centre, two weeks after it had been recommended by the Supreme Court collegium on February 12. While hearing the delhi violence case, Justice Murlidhar pulled up the delhi police for inaction, and said&nbsp;that another 1984-like situation cannot happen in the country.

The Delhi High Court has asked the Delhi Police Commissioner to file FIRs over the hate speeches made by BJP leaders before and after the assembly elections. News wire PTI reported that the high court told the special commissioner to communicate to the police commissioner Amulya&nbsp;Patniak&nbsp;to &lsquo;just register FIRs as not filing FIRs sends a wrong message&rsquo;. The high court directions came after it ordered the police to play three clips of BJP leaders Parvesh Varma, Anurag Thakur, Abhay Verma and Kapil Mishra&nbsp;in the court.&nbsp;The court asked the Delhi Police to take a conscious decision with respect to the registration of FIRs and report back on Thursday.&nbsp;

National Security Advisor,&nbsp;Ajit&nbsp;Doval,&nbsp;who has been en-tasked to bring situation to normal in riot-hit areas of Delhi, has said that the situation was normal and there was no enmity&nbsp;between the communities.&nbsp;
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The Supreme Court Bar Association, passed a resolution condemning the statements of Supreme Court judge, Justice Arun Mishra praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Delivering a vote of thanks at a judicial conference, Mishra said, India is a responsible member of the international community under the stewardship of the internationally acclaimed visionary Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He went on to call PM Modi 'a versatile genius who thinks globally and acts locally'. The SC bar association, in its resolution said, such statements reflect poorly on the independence of judiciary.

An Indian Airforce&nbsp;transport aircraft evacuated a group of 112 Indians and foreign nationals from Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, ending a week-long wait for their anxious families back home. Besides Indians, the relief aircraft also evacuated over a dozen nationals from seven countries, Bangladesh, South Africa, Madagascar, Myanmar and Maldives, US and China. The people brought back are expected to undergo a 14-day quarantine in India like their previous batches to ensure that they are cleared of the COVID-19 virus. India has already evacuated 647 nationals in two Air India flights in the first week of February.

Addressing the Delhi assembly, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that residents of the national capital are&nbsp;peace-loving&nbsp;and nobody wants riots. He again blamed people from outside Delhi's borders, political elements, and miscreants for the rioting in the northeast district. The CM also reiterated his demand that the Army should be called in to restore normalcy.&nbsp;
Later in the day,&nbsp;Kejriwal and his deputy Manish Sisodia interacted with the local residents in the sensitive areas in Northeast Delhi.&nbsp;

The Delhi Police has arrested 106 people for their alleged involvement in the northeast Delhi violence and registered 18 FIRs, a senior police officer said on Wednesday. Amid reports of relative calm, the total number of dead in the communal clashes reached 27.

Superstar Rajinikanth, who supported the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act, has slammed the central government for the Delhi violence in which over 20 people have lost their lives. The actor said the clashes were result of&nbsp;centre's&nbsp;"intelligence failure and the protests ought to have been contained with iron hand. The actor said&nbsp;Intelligence failure means it is the failure of the Home Ministry.&nbsp;

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced Wednesday that his government will give a compensation of Rs 1 crore to the family of head constable Ratan Lal who was killed in violence in northeast Delhi.&nbsp;&nbsp;

The Cabinet has approved the Surrogacy Regulation Bill, 2020, which allows any &lsquo;willing&rsquo; woman to be a surrogate mother and proposes that widows and divorced women can also benefit from its provisions, besides infertile Indian couples. The bill incorporates all recommendations made by a Rajya Sabha select committee, which studied an earlier version of the draft legislation, and is aimed at banning commercial surrogacy and allowing altruistic surrogacy. The amended bill is reformed version of the draft legislation which was passed by Lok Sabha in August 2019 but its provisions, including that only a close relative of a couple can be a surrogate mother, had invited criticism.&nbsp;

The Shiv Sena condemned the violence in northeast Delhi comparing the situation to a 'horror film', depicting the harsh reality of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. The party in an editorial in its mouthpiece Saamana said, people on the streets are equipped with canes, swords, revolvers; blood is being spilt on the roads, a horror film-like situation is being witnessed in Delhi, which depicts the grim reality of the 1984 riots. It added that US President Donald Trump was being welcomed in Delhi while there was a 'bloodbath' on the streets of the capital.

Reports say a 26-year-old Intelligence Bureau employee was killed by a stone-pelting mob in Delhi's Chandbagh&nbsp;area. His body was then reportedly dumped in a nearby drain.&nbsp;The employee has been identified as Ankit Sharma, he&nbsp;had joined the Intelligence Bureau in 2017, and was working as a driver. His rank was 'security assistant'. Over 20 people have been killed in the ongoing violence in Northeast Delhi which started on Sunday evening.

'We can't let another 1984 scenario happen in this city; not under the watch of this court', with this the Delhi High Court asked the highest functionaries of the national capital to reach out to the people from the riot affected areas and work on confidence building. The court has also asked the high functionaries to visit the areas. 'It is time to show that Z security' is for everyone', the High Court said. A 2-judge bench was hearing a petition filed by activist Harsh Mander&nbsp;seeking an independent probe into the communal clashes in Delhi that have been going on since Sunday.&nbsp;

UN chief Antonio Guterres is closely following the situation in New Delhi and stresses that demonstrators should be allowed to protest peacefully, and security forces should show restraint, his spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said at the daily press briefing.&nbsp; Communal violence over the Citizenship Amendment Act in northeast Delhi has killed over 20 people, including a police constable, and left over 250 people injured till Wednesday as police struggled to check the rioters who ran amok on streets, burning and looting shops, pelting stones and thrashing people.&nbsp;

Samajwadi Party MP Mohammad Azam Khan, his wife Tanzeen Fatima and son Abdullah Azam were sent to seven days judicial custody after they surrendered in Rampur district court on Wednesday. The Khan family had been ignoring summons by the courts in various cases and as a result warrants were issued against them. Besides other charges, Khan has been booked for land grabbing, encroachment, book theft, power theft, statue theft, buffalo theft, goat theft while his son was booked for forgery in birth date documents.&nbsp;The next hearing of the case will be on March 2.&nbsp;

Pulling up the Delhi police, Delhi High Court Justice S Muralidhar said he was 'amazed' to learn that a senior police official had not even watched footage of a recent hate speech by the BJP leader Kapil Mishra. The video was then played inside the courtroom in the presence of the Deputy Commissioner of Police, several lawyers and Solicitor General Tushar Mehta. Justice Muralidhar asked the police commissioner, why wasn't the lodging of FIRs against the culprits considered an urgent matter by his men. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, who appeared for Delhi Police, wanted asked the matter to be postponed. The court was hearing a plea filed by retired bureaucrat Harsh Mander on violence in which 20 people have been killed. The petitioner has sought judicial enquiry into the incidents of violence, FIR against the culprits, deployment of army and compensation for the victims.

As communal violence continues&nbsp;to unfold on the streets of northeast Delhi for the fourth consecutive day on Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has appealed to the residents of national capital to maintain peace and brotherhood. In a series of tweets, the prime minister wrote that he held&nbsp;extensive review on the situation prevailing in various parts of Delhi, adding, police and other agencies are working on the ground to ensure peace and normalcy. He said peace and harmony are central to our ethos. 25 people have been killed in the violence&nbsp;that first unfolded on Sunday.

The violence over the amended citizenship act in Delhi drew sharp reactions from US lawmakers, as it coincided with the 2-day visit of President Donald Trump. US Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal tweeted, the 'deadly surge of religious intolerance in India is horrifying'. She added democracies should not tolerate division and discrimination or promote laws that undermine religious freedom. Congressman Alan Lowenthal also called the violence a tragic failure of moral leadership. Democratic presidential candidate and Senator Elizabeth Warren said, it's important to strengthen relationships with democratic partners like India, but at the same time, the US govt must speak the truth about religious freedom, adding that violence against peaceful protesters is never acceptable."

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