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Delhi // 12 noon // Gokulpuri market, next to the metro station // Arson // Fire in petrol pump suspected // Fire department said: They will attend tje distress call only if the police can assure security
12.30 pm // Armed mobs heading towards Maujpur from the Gokulpuri arson site.
1 pm // tension escalates near spot in Bhajanpura where petrol pump and dargah were set ablaze. Fresh deployment of personnel in Bhajanpura, Dayalpur, Chand Bagh.
1.30 pm// Security stepped up in roads that lead to Brijpuri, Dayalpur, etc. Armed mobs still on the main roads.
Remnants of previous night's violence in Khajoori Khas. Khajoori is on the edge once again.
2 pm// Mohammad Nawab, who ferries goods from Bawana industrial area, and his partner were stopped, identified by their religion and beaten up by a mob who stopped their vehicle near Gokulpuri market. The mob snatched their documents and keys.
The damaged vehicle.
2.20 pm // Brijpuri, north-east Delhi.
2.45 pm// More companies head towards Gokulpuri and Kardampuri.
From a burnt Madrassa in Dayalpur. Behind the local police station.
3.15 pm// Gokulpuri market // More than four hours now. This fire is yet to be doused.

Fire department said, first fire tender could be sent there around an hour ago. Rioteers had blocked an arterial road.
4.45 pm // West Jyoti Nagar

A tailor's shop set on fire by rioteers. Police chased them away. After the arson, the rioteers (wearing masks and helmets) were breaking CCTV cameras is shops and residential premises.
5 pm// Durgapuri chowk

Police nabs on rioteer while vandalising shops in Rishi Kardam Marg with help from local traders in the neighborhood.
Traders in Durgapuri - Jyotinagar furious: "What Hinduism and Hindutva, these are all bloody thugs!"
Police in action.
5.30 pm// Jyoti Nagar
Rioteers set fire on vehicles. Police were present in two pickets - each of them 100m away from the spot.
6.30 pm// Cars set ablaze outside petrol pump in Gokulpuri.
Wajid ki dukaan
8 pm // Brijpuri // Arsons continue
All lights turned off on the Bhajanpura-YamunaVihar-Gokulpuri arterial stretch.

House on fire near Chand Bagh.
The anti-CAA protest site in Chand Bagh razed to the ground.
8.30 pm// that's one of the main arterial roads in North East Delhi.

Left: Carriageway towards Bhajanpura
Right: Carriageway towards Gokulpur/Loni

If you are heading out of NE Delhi, take the Yamuna Pushta exit. It's safe at this moment.
Delhi Fire Service director Atul Garg said:

Total fire calls in northeast Delho from 8 am to 8 pm today: 70.

Total fire vehicle stoned/damaged 5.

One officer injured in stones pelting.
S N Srivastava, former chief of Delhi's anti-terror wing Special Cell, takes over as Delhi's new Law and Order chief from today.

He will now be monitoring the riots in North East Delhi.
Meanwhile, by 9.30 pm, 13 deaths confirmed.
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