Thread by @thecaravanindia

#DelhiViolence | Updates from our reporters on the ground in northeast Delhi.

An account from a 26-year-old photojournalist, who was at Chandbagh:

“At around 1.30 pm, a Hindu right-wing mob of around 200 men came near the protest site carrying stones and everything. They started stone pelting. They burnt the petrol pump.”

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“They were chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’ ... They burnt the petrol pump—there was a truck nearby, they first burnt that, then they burnt the petrol pump.”

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“Then all the cars that were there, on the opposite side of the protest site, near the petrol pump, they burnt all of them. They were with the police.”

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“The mob once burnt an e-rickshaw, then rolled it towards the Chand Bagh side, towards the protesters. They did this with many vehicles—I don’t know to defame the protest or what."

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“Police personnel were few. At the beginning they were around 50-60 of them, then the mob was far more in numbers.”

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“The mob started shooting at around 4 pm. They were in civil dress, wearing helmets. Where we were standing, a person standing just next to us was also shot. We are not sure if he is dead or what.”

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“Whole of Chand Bagh was on fire. We left around 7 pm. The mob had taken over the entire area. They had reached around 300, or 400–500 people. They burnt the protest site. There was stone pelting and teargassing at the homes.”

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“The police was throwing tear gas at the protesters again and again. The protesters were picking us the shells and throwing it back. A tear gas blasted in a protesters hand too—people said that his bones were visible, the blast was that bad.”

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“The police was moving with the mob, stone pelting at the protesters along with them.”

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“The protestors on the other side were earlier around 500, but the number declined with time. On the main site, there were around 200–300 who were left fighting.”

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