"2020 उत्तर-पूर्वी दिल्ली के दंगे": अवतरणों में अंतर

'''२०२० उत्तर-पूर्वी दिल्ली के दंगे''' 23 फरवरी 2020 की रात से शुरू होकर, [[उत्तर पूर्व दिल्ली]] के [[जाफराबाद]] इलाके में रक्तपात, संपत्ति विनाश, दंगों और हिंसक घटनाओं की एक श्रृंखला थीं। दिल्ली पुलिस द्वारा न्यायालय में दी गई चार्ज शीट के अनुसार इन दंगों की योजना ताहिर हुसैन ने जनवरी २०२० में ही बना ली थी. उसकी योजना अमेरिकी राष्ट्रपति डोनाल्ड ट्रम्प की दिल्ली यात्रा के समय दिल्ली में दंगा करने की थी. इसमें 53 लोग मारे<ref name=Polis>{{cite web |url=https://www.firstpost.com/india/high-cost-of-riots-in-northeast-delhi-list-of-49-people-who-died-during-three-days-of-violence-8108751.html |title=High cost of riots in northeast Delhi: List of 49 people who died during three days of violence |work=Firstpost |date=March 3, 2020 |accessdate=March 3, 2020 |author=The Polis Project |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200302121003/https://www.firstpost.com/india/high-cost-of-riots-in-northeast-delhi-list-of-49-people-who-died-during-three-days-of-violence-8108751.html |archive-date=2 मार्च 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref> गए और 200 से अधिक<ref name="Livemint26" /> लोग घायल हुए है। यह दंगे मुख्यतः हिंदूमुस्लिम महिलाओं की भीड़ द्वारा मुसलमानोंदिल्ली पुलिस के सिपाही रतनलाल की परनृशंस हमलाहत्या करने से हुई।<ref name="guardian-3-16-20-1">{{citation|title=Delhi's Muslims despair of justice after police implicated in riots|last1=Ellis-Peterson|first1=Hannah|last2=Azizur Rahman|first2=Shaikh|location=Delhi|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/16/delhis-muslims-despair-justice-police-implicated-hindu-riots|date=16 March 2020|accessdate=17 March 2020|quote=As the mob attacks came once, then twice and then a third time in this north-east Delhi neighbourhood, desperate stallholders repeatedly ran to Gokalpuri and Dayalpur police stations crying out for help. But each time they found the gates locked from the inside. For three days, no help came. ... Since the riots broke out in Delhi at the end of February, the worst religious conflict to engulf the capital in decades, questions have persisted about the role that the Delhi police played in enabling the violence, which was predominately Hindu mobs attacking Muslims. Of the 51 people who died, at least three-quarters were Muslim, and many Muslims are still missing.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200317023019/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/16/delhis-muslims-despair-justice-police-implicated-hindu-riots|archive-date=17 मार्च 2020|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="NYTimes-Analysis-March1">{{citation|last1=Gettleman|first1=Jeffrey|last2=Abi-Habib|first2=Maria|title=In India, Modi's Policies Have Lit a Fuse|date=1 March 2020|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/01/world/asia/india-modi-hindus.html|accessdate=1 March 2020|quote=This past week, as neighborhoods in India's capital burned and religiously driven bloodletting consumed more than 40 lives, most of them Muslim, India's government was quick to say that the violence was spontaneous... Many Muslims are now leaving, hoisting their unburned things on their heads and trudging away from streets that still smell of smoke.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200301173003/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/01/world/asia/india-modi-hindus.html|archive-date=1 मार्च 2020|url-status=live}}</ref>

मारे गए 53 लोगों में से, दो-तिहाईहिन्दू और मुसलमान दोनों शामिल थे जिन्हें गोली मार दी गई थी, तलवार से काट दिया गया एवं आग से जला दिया गया था।<ref name=nytimes-2020-3-12-two-thirds>{{citation|title='If We Kill You, Nothing Will Happen': How Delhi's Police Turned Against Muslims|first1=Jeffrey|last1=Gettleman|first2=Sameer|last2=Yasir|first3=Suhasini|last3=Raj|first4=Hari|last4=Kumar|others=Photographs by Loke, Atul|date=12 March 2020|accessdate=13 March 2020|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/world/asia/india-police-muslims.html|quote=Two-thirds of the more than 50 people who were killed and have been identified were Muslim.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200313011029/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/world/asia/india-police-muslims.html|archive-date=13 मार्च 2020|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="wapo-3-6-20-slater-1">{{citation|last1=Slater|first1=Joanna|last2=Masih|first2=Niha|date=6 March 2020|title=In Delhi's worst violence in decades, a man watched his brother burn|work=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/in-delhis-worst-violence-in-decades-a-man-watched-his-brother-burn/2020/03/05/892dbb12-5e45-11ea-ac50-18701e14e06d_story.html|access-date=6 March 2020|quote=At least 53 people were killed or suffered deadly injuries in violence that persisted for two days. The majority of those killed were Muslims, many shot, hacked or burned to death. A police officer and an intelligence officer were also killed. So too were more than a dozen Hindus, most of them shot or assaulted.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200307070624/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/in-delhis-worst-violence-in-decades-a-man-watched-his-brother-burn/2020/03/05/892dbb12-5e45-11ea-ac50-18701e14e06d_story.html|archive-date=7 मार्च 2020|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="wapo-3-2-20-slater-1">{{citation|last1=Slater|first1=Joanna|last2=Masih|first2=Niha|date=2 March 2020|title=What Delhi's worst communal violence in decades means for Modi's India|work=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/what-days-of-communal-violence-mean-for-modi-and-for-india/2020/03/01/3d649c18-5a68-11ea-8efd-0f904bdd8057_story.html|access-date=15 March 2020|quote=Zaitoon, 40, who goes by one name, half-cried as she rummaged through the items. She said mobs entered her lane shouting "Jai Shri Ram," or "Victory to Lord Ram," a slogan favored by Modi's party, and demanded to know which houses were occupied by Muslims. She said she saw a neighbor set on fire in front of her, an account repeated by other witnesses.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200303203132/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/what-days-of-communal-violence-mean-for-modi-and-for-india/2020/03/01/3d649c18-5a68-11ea-8efd-0f904bdd8057_story.html|archive-date=3 मार्च 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> मृतकों में एक पुलिसकर्मी, एक खुफिया अधिकारी और एक दर्जन से अधिक हिंदू शामिल थे। हिंसा समाप्त होने के एक सप्ताह से अधिक समय के बाद, सैकड़ों घायल अपर्याप्त रूप से चिकित्सा सुविधाओं से वंचित थे और लाशें खुली नालियों में पाई जा रही थीं।<ref name="npr-3-7-20-frayer">{{citation|last=Frayer|first=Lauren|title=Delhi Riots Aftermath: 'How Do You Explain Such Violence?'|date=7 March 2020|url=https://www.npr.org/2020/03/07/812193930/delhi-riots-aftermath-how-do-you-explain-such-violence|work=National Public Radio|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200308072113/https://www.npr.org/2020/03/07/812193930/delhi-riots-aftermath-how-do-you-explain-such-violence|quote=But hundreds of wounded are languishing in understaffed medical facilities. Corpses are still being discovered in drainage ditches. Victims are still dying in hospitals. The death toll has reached 53... Police are facing accusations from victims, witnesses, human rights groups, opposition politicians and Muslim leaders worldwide that they failed to protect Muslim citizens, and in some cases, even incited attacks themselves.|accessdate=7 March 2020|archive-date=8 मार्च 2020|url-status=live}}</ref>

24 फरवरी 2020 को जाफराबाद और मौजपुर में हिंसक झड़पें हुईं जिसमें एक पुलिस अधिकारी और एक प्रदर्शनकारी मारे गए। इनमें से आई बी अधिकारी अंकित शर्मा की हत्या ताहिर हुसैन के घर में हुई और उन पर १२ बार चाकू से गोदने के निशान थे. सीएए समर्थक प्रदर्शनकारियों और सीएए विरोधी प्रदर्शनकारियों ने परस्पर एक-दूसरे पर पथराव किया और घरों, वाहनों और दुकानों में तोड़फोड़ की। पुलिसकर्मियों ने प्रदर्शनकारियों के खिलाफ [[अश्रु गैस|आंसू गैस]] और लाठीचार्ज का इस्तेमाल किया।

हिन्दुओं और मुसलमानों दोनों को हिंसा के लिए निशाना बनाया गया।<ref name="independent-withnall-27-2-2020">{{Citation|last=Withnall|first=Adam|title=Targeted for being Muslim|date=27 February 2020|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/muslim-hindu-clashes-latest-mosque-burnt-delhi-a9361601.html|work=The Independent|quote=His was one of around eight homes belonging to Muslims targeted by a rampaging mob in this Delhi neighbourhood on Tuesday afternoon, picked for destruction because they sat next to a mosque in this otherwise mostly Hindu-populated neighbourhood, vandalised, looted and then gutted with fire.|access-date=4 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200304045427/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/muslim-hindu-clashes-latest-mosque-burnt-delhi-a9361601.html|archive-date=4 मार्च 2020|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="wamsley-frayer-npr-2020-2-26-1">{{Citation|last=Wamsley|first=Laurel|title=In New Delhi, Days Of Deadly Violence And Riots|date=26 February 2020|url=https://www.npr.org/2020/02/26/809628525/in-new-delhi-days-of-deadly-violence-and-riots|publisher=NPR|quote=Hindu mobs appear to have targeted Muslims primarily – not people protesting the citizenship law.|access-date=25 March 2020|last2=Frayer|first2=Lauren|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200304090353/https://www.npr.org/2020/02/26/809628525/in-new-delhi-days-of-deadly-violence-and-riots|archive-date=4 मार्च 2020|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="NYTimes-Analysis-March5">{{Citation|last=Abi-Habib|first=Maria|title=Violence in India Threatens Its Global Ambitions|date=5 March 2020|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/world/asia/india-violence-diplomacy.html|work=The New York Times|quote=But as the leaders celebrated each other in India's capital, Hindu mobs began going after Muslim protesters in neighborhoods just a few miles away while the police looked on or joined in.|access-date=6 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200305231044/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/world/asia/india-violence-diplomacy.html|archive-date=5 मार्च 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> मुस्लिम पुरुष का (हिंदुओं के विपरीत) आमतौर पर [[खतना]] किया जाता है। व्यक्ति के धर्म का पता लगाने के लिए, पहले उनके निचले कपड़ों को हटाने के लिए मजबूर किया गया।<ref name="landrin-lemonde-2020-3-4">{{Citation|last=Landrin|first=Sophie|title=Attaques contre les musulmans à New Delhi : " J'ai pensé que j'allais mourir " Trois jours d'attaques meurtrières perpétrées par les nationalistes hindous dans le nord de la capitale indienne laissent des vies dévastées.|date=4 March 2020|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2020/03/04/attaques-contre-les-musulmans-a-new-delhi-j-ai-pense-que-j-allais-mourir_6031809_3210.html|work=Le Monde|quote=D’autres musulmans ont été déshabillés pour vérifier s’ils étaient circoncis, battus à mort et jetés dans les égouts à ciel ouvert de ce quartier pauvre et poussiéreux. (Other Muslims were stripped naked to check if they were circumcised, beaten to death and thrown into the open sewers of this poor and dusty neighbourhood.)|access-date=25 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200305010242/https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2020/03/04/attaques-contre-les-musulmans-a-new-delhi-j-ai-pense-que-j-allais-mourir_6031809_3210.html|archive-date=5 मार्च 2020|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="guardian-3-6-20">{{Citation|last=Ellis-Peterson|first=Hannah|title='I cannot find my father's body': Delhi's fearful Muslims mourn riot dead|date=6 March 2020|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/06/how-can-i-go-back-delhi-fearful-muslims-mourn-riot-dead|work=The Guardian|place=Delhi|quote=According to a witness, Arshad kept quiet, so the mob forced down his trousers. On seeing he was circumcised, as is common among Muslims in India, the mob instantly beat him to death. His bloodied body was later found in a gutter, his pants still around his ankles... In the aftermath, even in unaffected areas of Delhi, an exodus of Muslim families began this week, with swathes packing up their bags and returning for good to their home villages, fearing for their safety in the capital.|access-date=7 March 2020|last2=Azizur Rahman|first2=Shaikh|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200306202841/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/06/how-can-i-go-back-delhi-fearful-muslims-mourn-riot-dead|archive-date=6 मार्च 2020|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="wamsley-frayer-npr-2020-2-26-3">{{Citation|last=Wamsley|first=Laurel|title=In New Delhi, Days Of Deadly Violence And Riots|date=26 February 2020|url=https://www.npr.org/2020/02/26/809628525/in-new-delhi-days-of-deadly-violence-and-riots|publisher=NPR|quote=Mobs have stopped people and demanded to know their religion. 'At least one photojournalist said he was asked to remove his pants to prove his religious identity,' the BBC adds. (Circumcision is common among male adherents of Islam.)|access-date=25 March 2020|last2=Frayer|first2=Lauren|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200304090353/https://www.npr.org/2020/02/26/809628525/in-new-delhi-days-of-deadly-violence-and-riots|archive-date=4 मार्च 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> एक अस्पताल में दर्ज की गई चोटों के बीच [[यौन अंग|जननांगों]] पर गहरे घाव थे।<ref name="apnews-saaliq-schmall-2020-2-28">{{Citation|last=Saaliq|first=Sheikh|title=Prayers at fire-bombed mosques as India's riot toll grows|date=28 February 2020|url=https://apnews.com/ee9be5d458ea02781505bf4bd149178a|work=Associated Press News|quote=Al-Hind hospital, a small clinic with two doctors, was the nearest medical facility for many of the victims. When the riots broke out, it turned into a chaotic emergency ward, its doctors dealing for the first time with injuries such as gunshot wounds, crushed skulls, stabbings and torn genitals.|access-date=25 March 2020|last2=Schmall|first2=Emily|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200229174933/https://apnews.com/ee9be5d458ea02781505bf4bd149178a|archive-date=29 फ़रवरी 2020|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="landrin-lemonde-2020-3-4-2">{{Citation|last=Landrin|first=Sophie|title=Attaques contre les musulmans à New Delhi : " J'ai pensé que j'allais mourir " Trois jours d'attaques meurtrières perpétrées par les nationalistes hindous dans le nord de la capitale indienne laissent des vies dévastées.|date=4 March 2020|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2020/03/04/attaques-contre-les-musulmans-a-new-delhi-j-ai-pense-que-j-allais-mourir_6031809_3210.html|work=Le Monde|quote=A l’entrée de l’hôpital, un homme qui officie à l’accueil a tout consigné sur son registre et son téléphone portable. Quelque 800 personnes, explique-t-il, ont été amenées entre le 23 et 25 février, certaines dans un état épouvantable. Des corps écartelés, carbonisés, des blessures par balles, des visages défigurés par de l’acide, des hommes atteints aux parties génitales. " Nous n’avons que de faibles moyens. Nous avons juste posé des garrots, des pansements et tenté de stopper le saignement des blessés ", confie-t-il. (At the entrance to the hospital, a man who works at the reception desk wrote everything down in his register and his mobile phone. Some 800 people, he says, were brought in between February 23 and 25, some in appalling condition. Torn, charred bodies, gunshot wounds, acid-disfigured faces, men with damage to the genitals. 'We have only weak means. We just put tourniquets, bandages and tried to stop the bleeding of the injured,' he said.|access-date=25 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200305010242/https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2020/03/04/attaques-contre-les-musulmans-a-new-delhi-j-ai-pense-que-j-allais-mourir_6031809_3210.html|archive-date=5 मार्च 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> नष्ट की गई संपत्तियां हिन्दुओं और मुस्लिमों के स्वामित्व वाली थीं और इनमें चार [[मस्जिद|मस्जिदें]] शामिल थीं, जिन्हें दंगाइयों ने तोड़ दिया था। <ref>{{Citation|last=Yasir|first=Sameer|title=Indian Police Sweep Through Riot Zone, Making More Arrests|date=28 February 2020|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/28/world/asia/india-new-delhi-violence.html|work=The New York Times|quote=The property destruction has also been lopsidedly anti-Muslim, with many Muslim-owned motorcycles, cars, houses, shops and factories reduced to ashes. At least four mosques were set on fire during 48 hours of rioting.|access-date=4 March 2020|last2=Raj|first2=Suhasini|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200303083726/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/28/world/asia/india-new-delhi-violence.html|archive-date=3 मार्च 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> फरवरी के अंत तक, कई हिन्दुओं और मुस्लिमों ने इन इलाकों को छोड़ दिया था। <ref name="NYTimes-Analysis-March1" /> यहां तक कि हिंसा से अछूते दिल्ली के कुछ इलाकों में, कुछ हिन्दू-मुसलमान भारत की राजधानी में अपनी व्यक्तिगत सुरक्षा के लिए भयभीत होकर अपने पैतृक गाँवों के लिए रवाना हो गए थे।<ref name="guardian-3-6-202">{{citation|last1=Ellis-Peterson|first1=Hannah|title='I cannot find my father's body': Delhi's fearful Muslims mourn riot dead|date=6 March 2020|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/06/how-can-i-go-back-delhi-fearful-muslims-mourn-riot-dead|work=The Guardian|location=Delhi|quote=According to a witness, Arshad kept quiet, so the mob forced down his trousers. On seeing he was circumcised, as is common among Muslims in India, the mob instantly beat him to death. His bloodied body was later found in a gutter, his pants still around his ankles... In the aftermath, even in unaffected areas of Delhi, an exodus of Muslim families began this week, with swathes packing up their bags and returning for good to their home villages, fearing for their safety in the capital.|accessdate=7 March 2020|last2=Azizur Rahman|first2=Shaikh|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200306202841/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/06/how-can-i-go-back-delhi-fearful-muslims-mourn-riot-dead|archive-date=6 मार्च 2020|url-status=live}}</ref>

दंगों की शुरुआत उत्तर पूर्वी दिल्ली के [[ज़ाफ़राबाद|जाफराबाद]] में [[ज़ाफ़राबाद|हुई]] थी, जहां भारत के [[नागरिकता (संशोधन) अधिनियम, २०१९|नागरिकता (संशोधन) अधिनियम, 2019 के]] खिलाफ [[शाहीन बाग़ प्रदर्शन|महिलाओं द्वारा बैठकर]] [[सीलमपुर]] - [[ज़ाफ़राबाद|जाफराबाद]] - [[मौजपुर मेट्रो स्टेशन|मौजपुर]] मार्ग पर [[मौजपुर मेट्रो स्टेशन|जाम लगा था]] । <ref name="diplomat-2-27-2020">{{Citation|last=Basu|first=Soma|title=Delhi: The Anatomy of a Riot|url=https://thediplomat.com/2020/02/delhi-the-anatomy-of-a-riot/|work=Diplomat|quote=BJP leader Kapil Mishra issued a 'three-day ultimatum' to police to clear a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) by women at the Jaffrabad Metro Station.|access-date=6 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200228151915/https://thediplomat.com/2020/02/delhi-the-anatomy-of-a-riot/|archive-date=28 फ़रवरी 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> <ref name="uniindia">{{Cite web|url=http://www.uniindia.com/protests-at-jaffarabad-against-caa-security-beefed-up-2-metro-stations-closed/india/news/1896707.html|title=Protests at Jaffarabad against CAA; security beefed up, 2 metro stations closed|date=23 February 2020|website=United News of India|access-date=2 March 2020|quote=Demanding revocation of Citizenship (Amendment) Act, protesters—mostly women—on Sunday took to streets and blocked the road below Jaffrabad metro station.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200302133213/http://www.uniindia.com/protests-at-jaffarabad-against-caa-security-beefed-up-2-metro-stations-closed/india/news/1896707.html|archive-date=2 मार्च 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> यहाँ भी एक नया शाहीन बाग़ बनाने की तैयारी चल रही थी. 23 फरवरी 2020 को, सत्तारूढ़ [[हिन्दू राष्ट्रवाद|हिंदू राष्ट्रवादी]] [[भारतीय जनता पार्टी]] (भाजपा) के एक नेता, [[कपिल मिश्रा]] ने [[दिल्ली पुलिस]] से सड़कों को खाली करने का आह्वान किया, जिसमें उन्होंने अपने समर्थकों की मदद से खुद ऐसा करने की धमकी दी। <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/video/kapil-mishra-bjp-jaffrabad-protest-delhi-police-3-days-ultimatum-1649286-2020-02-23|title=BJP leader Kapil Mishra's 3-day ultimatum to Delhi Police|website=India Today|access-date=26 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200226141259/https://www.indiatoday.in/india/video/kapil-mishra-bjp-jaffrabad-protest-delhi-police-3-days-ultimatum-1649286-2020-02-23|archive-date=26 फ़रवरी 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ndtv.com/delhi-news/bjp-leader-kapil-mishras-3-day-ultimatum-to-delhi-police-to-clear-anti-caa-protest-jaffrabad-2184627|title="We'll Be Peaceful Till Trump Leaves," BJP Leader Kapil Mishra Warns Delhi Police|website=NDTV.com|access-date=26 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200225225815/https://www.ndtv.com/delhi-news/bjp-leader-kapil-mishras-3-day-ultimatum-to-delhi-police-to-clear-anti-caa-protest-jaffrabad-2184627|archive-date=25 फ़रवरी 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> मिश्रा के अल्टीमेटम के बाद हिंसा भड़क उठी। <ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/02/fresh-violence-erupts-indian-capital-anti-caa-protests-200224121139653.html|title=Fresh violence erupts in Indian capital during anti-CAA protests|last=Kuchay|first=Bilal|date=24 February 2020|work=Al Jazeera|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200508051805/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/02/fresh-violence-erupts-indian-capital-anti-caa-protests-200224121139653.html|archive-date=8 मई 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> ज्यादातर मौतों का कारण बन्दूक की गोली थी। <ref name="veconomist-2">{{Cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/asia/2020/02/26/donald-trump-and-narendra-modi-hug-as-delhi-burns|title=Donald Trump and Narendra Modi hug as Delhi burns|date=26 February 2020|work=[[The Economist]]|quote=Both sides soon resorted to shooting; most of the fatalities, which included two policemen, were caused by gunfire... The police, which in Delhi are controlled by the central government, only deployed in strength on February 26th. On the orders of a court, they also began registering complaints of incitement. Mr Modi's national-security adviser toured affected districts, giving his 'word of honour' that residents could feel safe. The prime minister himself, after three days of silence, belatedly tweeted a plea for calm.|access-date=17 जून 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200227051940/https://www.economist.com/asia/2020/02/26/donald-trump-and-narendra-modi-hug-as-delhi-burns|archive-date=27 फ़रवरी 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> प्रारंभएक में,युवक हिंदूशाहरुख़ औरखान मुस्लिमने हमलेतो समानदिल्ली रूपपुलिस सेपर भी पिस्टल तान दी. प्रारंभ में, मुस्लिम हावी घातकरहे थे। <ref name="nytimes-2020-3-12-1">{{Citation|last=Gettleman|first=Jeffrey|title='If We Kill You, Nothing Will Happen': How Delhi's Police Turned Against Muslims|date=12 March 2020|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/world/asia/india-police-muslims.html|work=The New York Times|others=Photographs by Loke, Atul|quote=When the violence started on Feb. 23 – as Hindu men gathered to forcibly eject a peaceful Muslim protest near their neighborhood – much of it became two-sided. By day's end, both Muslims and Hindus had been attacked, and dozens had been shot, apparently with small-bore homemade guns. But by Feb. 25 the direction had changed.|access-date=13 March 2020|last2=Yasir|first2=Sameer|last3=Raj|first3=Suhasini|last4=Kumar|first4=Hari|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200313011029/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/world/asia/india-police-muslims.html|archive-date=13 मार्च 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> लेकिन 25 फरवरी 2020 के बाद मरने वाले लोगों में मुसलमानों की संख्या बढ़ गई थी। <ref name="nytimes-2020-3-12-1" /> हेलमेट पहने और लाठी, पत्थर, तलवार या पिस्तौल लेकर दंगाई [[हिन्दू राष्ट्रवाद|हिंदूऔर राष्ट्रवाद]]मुस्लिम केईलाकों भगवामें झंडेदंगे लेकरऔर मुस्लिमआगजनी इलाकों में घुस गए,करते रहे जबकि पुलिस मूकदर्शक बन कर खड़ी रही । <ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2020/02/26/inde-new-delhi-en-proie-a-de-violents-conflits-intercommunautaires_6030862_3210.html|title=Inde : New Delhi en proie à de violents conflits intercommunautaires|last=Landrin|first=Sophie|date=26 February 2020|work=Le Monde|access-date=4 March 2020|language=fr|trans-title=India: New Delhi plagued by violent inter-community conflicts|quote=Des hordes d’émeutiers casqués, armés de bâtons, de pierres, de sabres ou de pistolets, portant des drapeaux safran – la couleur des nationalistes hindous – ont pris d’assaut cette zone. Des véhicules, des échoppes, ainsi que des maisons appartenant à des musulmans, ont été incendiés sous les yeux d’une police totalement passive. (Hordes of helmeted rioters, armed with sticks, stones, sabers or pistols, carrying saffron flags - the color of Hindu nationalists - stormed this area. Vehicles, stalls, as well as houses belonging to Muslims, were set on fire in front of a totally passive police force.)|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200303231849/https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2020/02/26/inde-new-delhi-en-proie-a-de-violents-conflits-intercommunautaires_6030862_3210.html|archive-date=3 मार्च 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> <ref name="nytimes-2020-3-12-2">{{Citation|last=Gettleman|first=Jeffrey|title='If We Kill You, Nothing Will Happen': How Delhi's Police Turned Against Muslims|date=12 March 2020|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/world/asia/india-police-muslims.html|work=The New York Times|others=Photographs by Loke, Atul|quote=Hindu mobs fanned out and targeted Muslim families. Violence crackled in the air. Police officers watched as mobs of Hindus, their foreheads marked by saffron stripes, prowled the streets with baseball bats and rusty bars, looking for Muslims to kill. The sky was filled with smoke. Muslim homes, shops and mosques were burned down.|access-date=13 March 2020|last2=Yasir|first2=Sameer|last3=Raj|first3=Suhasini|last4=Kumar|first4=Hari|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200313011029/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/world/asia/india-police-muslims.html|archive-date=13 मार्च 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> "जय श्री राम" (" [[राम|भगवान राम की]] विजय") और अल्लाह हो अकबर के नारे लगे । <ref name="wapo-3-2-20-slater-12">{{Citation|last=Slater|first=Joanna|title=What Delhi's worst communal violence in decades means for Modi's India|date=2 March 2020|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/what-days-of-communal-violence-mean-for-modi-and-for-india/2020/03/01/3d649c18-5a68-11ea-8efd-0f904bdd8057_story.html|work=The Washington Post|quote=Zaitoon, 40, who goes by one name, half-cried as she rummaged through the items. She said mobs entered her lane shouting "Jai Shri Ram," or "Victory to Lord Ram," a slogan favored by Modi's party, and demanded to know which houses were occupied by Muslims. She said she saw a neighbor set on fire in front of her, an account repeated by other witnesses.|access-date=15 March 2020|last2=Masih|first2=Niha|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200303203132/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/what-days-of-communal-violence-mean-for-modi-and-for-india/2020/03/01/3d649c18-5a68-11ea-8efd-0f904bdd8057_story.html|archive-date=3 मार्च 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> शिव विहार के पड़ोस में, हिंसक हिंदू और मुस्लिम पुरुषों के समूहों ने तीन दिनों तक मुस्लिमएक-दूसरे के घरों और व्यवसायों पर हमला किया, अक्सर उन्हें [[ ईंधन गैस|खाना पकाने के गैस सिलेंडरों के]] उपयोग विस्फोटक की तरह किया । पुलिस से प्रतिरोध के बिना उनकी हत्या की गयी । <ref name="guardian-3-6-20-3">{{Citation|last=Ellis-Peterson|first=Hannah|title='I cannot find my father's body': Delhi's fearful Muslims mourn riot dead|date=6 March 2020|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/06/how-can-i-go-back-delhi-fearful-muslims-mourn-riot-dead|work=The Guardian|place=Delhi|quote=In Shiv Vihar, from where they and many others had escaped, almost every Muslim home lay in blackened ruins, and two mosques looked like bomb sites. For three days, Hindu rioters attacked Shiv Vihar's Muslim localities and ran mayhem without any resistance from police. The mobs repeatedly used gas canisters as weapons, setting them alight and exploding them in Muslim properties so that the walls crumbled entirely.|access-date=7 March 2020|last2=Azizur Rahman|first2=Shaikh|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200306202841/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/06/how-can-i-go-back-delhi-fearful-muslims-mourn-riot-dead|archive-date=6 मार्च 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> कुछ जगहों पर मुसलमानोंहिन्दुओं ने हिंसा करने वालों पर जवाबी कार्यवाही की ; 25 तारीख को एक मुस्लिम भीड़ ने एक हिंदू बहुल क्षेत्र में पत्थर फेंका, साथ ही [[ मोलोटोव कॉकटेल|मोलोटोव कॉकटेल]] और बंदूक से गोलीबारी की। <ref name="wapo-3-2-20-slater-2">{{Citation|last=Slater|first=Joanna|title=What Delhi's worst communal violence in decades means for Modi's India|date=2 March 2020|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/what-days-of-communal-violence-mean-for-modi-and-for-india/2020/03/01/3d649c18-5a68-11ea-8efd-0f904bdd8057_story.html|work=The Washington Post|quote=In the riots that swept northeastern Delhi, Muslims mobilized to counter perceived threats and clashed with Hindus. A two-lane road separates Muslim-dominated Mustafabad from Hindu-dominated Bhagirathi Vihar. Hindus say a large mob approached from the Muslim side Tuesday night, throwing stones and Molotov cocktails and firing guns. 'It became difficult to save our lives,' said Yogesh Kumar, 24, an accountant. 'When the fire spreads, everything gets torched,' Sanjay Kumar, 40, said bitterly as he looked around at the destroyed storefronts and burned facades along a lane leading from the main road. He blamed Kapil Mishra, the BJP leader who issued the original threat to protesters who mounted a sit-in.|access-date=15 March 2020|last2=Masih|first2=Niha|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200303203132/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/what-days-of-communal-violence-mean-for-modi-and-for-india/2020/03/01/3d649c18-5a68-11ea-8efd-0f904bdd8057_story.html|archive-date=3 मार्च 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> इस दौरान, मुस्लिमों के उपचार के लिए सिखों और हिंदुओं के साथआगे आने की कहानियों भी पप्रकाशितप्रकाशित हुई; <ref name="guardian-3-1-20-sikh-hindu">{{Citation|last=Ellis-Peterson|first=Hannah|title=Inside Delhi: beaten, lynched and burnt alive|date=1 March 2020|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/01/india-delhi-after-hindu-mob-riot-religious-hatred-nationalists|work=The Guardian|place=Delhi|quote=But for all the tales of discord, dozens of accounts were also given to the ''Observer'' of how Sikh and Hindu families helped save their Muslim neighbours, sheltering them in their homes as the violence broke out or helping them escape as the mobs descended.|access-date=27 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200304060058/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/01/india-delhi-after-hindu-mob-riot-religious-hatred-nationalists|archive-date=4 मार्च 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> कुछ पड़ोस में, धार्मिक समुदायों सहने आपसी सहयोग से खुद को हिंसा से बचाया। <ref name="Barton2020">{{Cite web|url=https://thewire.in/communalism/chand-bagh-delhi-riots-hindu-muslim|title=How Muslim and Hindu Neighbours Protected Each Other Through the Long Night at Chand Bagh|last=Barton|first=Naomi|date=1 March 2020|website=[[The Wire (India)|The Wire]]|access-date=3 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200302132319/https://thewire.in/communalism/chand-bagh-delhi-riots-hindu-muslim|archive-date=2 मार्च 2020|url-status=live}}</ref>

भारतदिल्ली सरकारपुलिस ने तेजी से हिंसा को स्वतःस्फूर्तपूर्वनियोजित बताया। <ref name="NYTimes-Analysis-March12">{{Citation|last=Gettleman|first=Jeffrey|title=In India, Modi's Policies Have Lit a Fuse|date=1 March 2020|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/01/world/asia/india-modi-hindus.html|work=The New York Times|quote=This past week, as neighborhoods in India's capital burned and religiously driven bloodletting consumed more than 40 lives, most of them Muslim, India's government was quick to say that the violence was spontaneous... Many Muslims are now leaving, hoisting their unburned things on their heads and trudging away from streets that still smell of smoke.|access-date=1 March 2020|last2=Abi-Habib|first2=Maria|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200301173003/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/01/world/asia/india-modi-hindus.html|archive-date=1 मार्च 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> [[दिल्ली पुलिस]], जो सीधे तौर पर भारत की [[भारत सरकार|केंद्र सरकार]] द्वारा संचालित [[भारत सरकार|है]], 26 फरवरी को [[दिल्ली उच्च न्यायालय]] ने क्षेत्र में अस्पतालों से घायल पीड़ितों को निकालने में मदद करने का आदेश दिया था। <ref name="veconomist-22">{{Cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/asia/2020/02/26/donald-trump-and-narendra-modi-hug-as-delhi-burns|title=Donald Trump and Narendra Modi hug as Delhi burns|date=26 February 2020|work=[[The Economist]]|quote=Both sides soon resorted to shooting; most of the fatalities, which included two policemen, were caused by gunfire... The police, which in Delhi are controlled by the central government, only deployed in strength on February 26th. On the orders of a court, they also began registering complaints of incitement. Mr Modi's national-security adviser toured affected districts, giving his 'word of honour' that residents could feel safe. The prime minister himself, after three days of silence, belatedly tweeted a plea for calm.|access-date=17 जून 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200227051940/https://www.economist.com/asia/2020/02/26/donald-trump-and-narendra-modi-hug-as-delhi-burns|archive-date=27 फ़रवरी 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> <ref name="economist-2020-3-12">{{Citation|title=First the mob, then the law|date=12 March 2020|url=https://www.economist.com/asia/2020/03/12/victims-of-rioting-in-india-are-bashed-by-the-police-and-courts-too|work=The Economist|quote=During the riots in Delhi, it was only after the high court ordered police to help evacuate wounded people to hospital that the city's 80,000-person police force began to intervene, after 48 hours of arson and murder.|access-date=15 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200314210157/https://www.economist.com/asia/2020/03/12/victims-of-rioting-in-india-are-bashed-by-the-police-and-courts-too|archive-date=14 मार्च 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> भारत के [[भारत के राष्ट्रीय सुरक्षा सलाहकार|राष्ट्रीय सुरक्षा सलाहकार]], [[अजीत डोभाल]] ने इस क्षेत्र का दौरा किया; प्रधानमंत्री [[नरेन्द्र मोदी|नरेंद्र मोदी]] ने ट्विटर पर शांति की अपील की। <ref name="veconomist-22" /> प्रभावित नागरिकों, चश्मदीदों, मानवाधिकार संगठनों और दुनिया भर के मुस्लिम नेताओं ने दिल्ली पुलिस पर मुस्लिमोंनागरिकों की रक्षा में कमीअसफल पड़नेरहने का आरोप लगाया था। <ref name="npr-3-7-20-frayer2">{{Citation|last=Frayer|first=Lauren|title=Delhi Riots Aftermath: 'How Do You Explain Such Violence?'|date=7 March 2020|url=https://www.npr.org/2020/03/07/812193930/delhi-riots-aftermath-how-do-you-explain-such-violence|publisher=NPR|quote=But hundreds of wounded are languishing in understaffed medical facilities. Corpses are still being discovered in drainage ditches. Victims are still dying in hospitals. The death toll has reached 53... Police are facing accusations from victims, witnesses, human rights groups, opposition politicians and Muslim leaders worldwide that they failed to protect Muslim citizens, and in some cases, even incited attacks themselves.|access-date=7 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200308072113/https://www.npr.org/2020/03/07/812193930/delhi-riots-aftermath-how-do-you-explain-such-violence|archive-date=8 मार्च 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> वीडियो में पुलिस को मुसलमानों केसे खिलाफमार दंगाइयों के साथ मिलकर हिंसा करते हुए,खाते और कई अवसर पर उद्देश्यपूर्णचुपचाप रूपहिंसा सेहोते हिंदूहुए गिरोहों की मदद करतेदेखते हुए देखा गया। <ref name="nytimes-2020-3-12-6">{{Citation|last=Gettleman|first=Jeffrey|title='If We Kill You, Nothing Will Happen': How Delhi's Police Turned Against Muslims|date=12 March 2020|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/world/asia/india-police-muslims.html|work=The New York Times|others=Photographs by Loke, Atul|quote=Now, more evidence is emerging that the Delhi police, who are under the direct command of Mr. Modi's government and have very few Muslim officers, concertedly moved against Muslims and at times actively helped the Hindu mobs that rampaged in New Delhi in late February, burning down Muslim homes and targeting Muslim families.|access-date=13 March 2020|last2=Yasir|first2=Sameer|last3=Raj|first3=Suhasini|last4=Kumar|first4=Hari|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200313011029/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/world/asia/india-police-muslims.html|archive-date=13 मार्च 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> प्रत्यक्षदर्शियों ने कहा कि कुछ पुलिस अधिकारी मुसलमानोंअपने परकर्तव्यों हमलोंका मेंनिर्वहन भीकरते हुए दंगईयों की गोली के शामिलशिकार हुए। <ref name="wapo-3-6-20-slater-2">{{Citation|last=Slater|first=Joanna|title=In Delhi's worst violence in decades, a man watched his brother burn|date=6 March 2020|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/in-delhis-worst-violence-in-decades-a-man-watched-his-brother-burn/2020/03/05/892dbb12-5e45-11ea-ac50-18701e14e06d_story.html|work=The Washington Post|quote=The police force – which is directly overseen by the central government – has come under criticism for failing to stop the violence. Witnesses say some officers joined the attacks on Muslims.|access-date=6 March 2020|last2=Masih|first2=Niha|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200307070624/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/in-delhis-worst-violence-in-decades-a-man-watched-his-brother-burn/2020/03/05/892dbb12-5e45-11ea-ac50-18701e14e06d_story.html|archive-date=7 मार्च 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> हिंसा के बाद लगभग 1,000 मुसलमानों ने दिल्ली के बाहरी क्षेत्रों में स्थित राहत शिविर में शरण ली। <ref name="nytimes-2020-3-12-5">{{Citation|last=Gettleman|first=Jeffrey|title='If We Kill You, Nothing Will Happen': How Delhi's Police Turned Against Muslims|date=12 March 2020|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/world/asia/india-police-muslims.html|work=The New York Times|others=Photographs by Loke, Atul|quote=Some Muslims are leaving their neighborhoods, having lost all faith in the police. More than 1,000 have piled into a camp for internally displaced people that is rising on Delhi's outskirts.|access-date=13 March 2020|last2=Yasir|first2=Sameer|last3=Raj|first3=Suhasini|last4=Kumar|first4=Hari|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200313011029/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/world/asia/india-police-muslims.html|archive-date=13 मार्च 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> वहीँ दूसरी तरफ कई हिन्दू परिवार भी जिनके घर, दुकानें, स्कूल और गाड़ियाँ दंगाइयों ने जला दी थीं अपने सम्बन्धियों के घर चले गए. <ref name="nytimes-2020-3-12-4">{{Citation|last=Gettleman|first=Jeffrey|title='If We Kill You, Nothing Will Happen': How Delhi's Police Turned Against Muslims|date=12 March 2020|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/world/asia/india-police-muslims.html|work=The New York Times|others=Photographs by Loke, Atul|quote=India's population is about 80 percent Hindu, and gangs of Hindus threatened Muslims in several Delhi neighborhoods to leave before the Hindu holiday Holi that was celebrated this week.|access-date=13 March 2020|last2=Yasir|first2=Sameer|last3=Raj|first3=Suhasini|last4=Kumar|first4=Hari|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200313011029/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/world/asia/india-police-muslims.html|archive-date=13 मार्च 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> दंगों के बाद कम से कम दो हफ्तों के लिए, दिन के दौरान हिंदू और मुस्लिम एक-दूसरे से बचते थे और रात को बाधाओं के साथ अपनी गलियों को अवरुद्ध कर देते थे। <ref name="reuters-jain-ahmed-2020-3-16">{{Citation|last=Jain|first=Rupam|title=In Indian capital, riots deepen a Hindu-Muslim divide|date=16 March 2020|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-citizenship-protests-divide-ins/in-indian-capital-riots-deepen-a-hindu-muslim-divide-idUSKBN2130DZ|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200325155504/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-citizenship-protests-divide-ins/in-indian-capital-riots-deepen-a-hindu-muslim-divide-idUSKBN2130DZ|quote=But the riots that raged through the district last month appear to have cleaved lasting divisions in the community ...During the day, Hindus and Muslims shun each other in the alleys of the Delhi districts that were hardest hit by the unrest in February. At night, when the threat of violence is greater, they are physically divided by barricades that are removed in the morning.|access-date=26 March 2020|archive-date=25 मार्च 2020|last2=Ahmed|first2=Aftab|url-status=live}}</ref>