Azad Maidan Riots

• Mumbai 26/11 cop quits police force

  Ace Mumbai police officer Ramesh Mahale, who has investigated some of the most high- profile cases including the 26/11 terror attacks, the recent Azad Maidan riots and the murder of MiD DAY's Investigations Editor J Dey, has resigned from the force.

• Uddhav Thackeray backs Mumbai police officer's controversial poem on Azad Maidan rioting

  Shiv Sena Executive President Uddhav Thackerey has defended a Mumbai police inspector whose poem on the riots at Mumbai's Azad Maidan last year sparked off a controversy.

• Mumbai Police Commissioner to probe publishing of traffic cop's poem on Azad Maidan riots after controversy

  After major controversy over a poem written by a traffic cop in Mumbai over the riots at Azad Maidan in the city last year, Mumbai Police Commissioner Satyapal Singh has himself decided to probe how the poem got published in the in-house magazine.

• Mumbai traffic cop's poem on Azad Maidan riots sparks controversy

  A poem written by a traffic cop in Mumbai over the riots at Azad Maidan in the city last year has sparked a major furore. Activists have alleged Inspector Sujata Patil's poem of inciting communal hatred, forcing the Mumbai Police to tender an apology.

• Mumbai Azad Maidan riots: 80 people charged

  The Mumbai Police on Friday formally charged 80 people for the rioting at an Azad Maidan rally held on August 11 that claimed two lives, an official said.

• Mumbai riots: Rs 2-crore bill to be slapped on Raza Academy

  Organisers of the protest rally at Azad Maidan could face a stiff bill for the riots that broke out three weeks ago. A preliminary report compiled by the Crime Branch estimates that property worth Rs 2.12 crore was damaged in the fracas, and the investigating team will now submit a letter to the collector's office, which will then forward it to the...

• Five more people arrested in Mumbai's Azad Maidan violence case

  Five more people have been arrested in connection with the Azad Maidan violence in Mumbai on August 11. So far 48 people have been arrested in the case, 24 of them since Tuesday evening.

• Prithviraj Chavan not in favour of transferring Mumbai top cop: Sources

  With Mumbai Police Commissioner Arup Patnaik under attack from some quarters, including the ruling ally NCP, for what they say is the mishandling of the protest at Azad Maidan on August 11, sources have told NDTV that Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan is reportedly not in favour of transferring the top cop.

• 19 more people arrested in Mumbai's Azad Maidan violence case

  19 more people have been arrested in connection with the Azad Maidan violence in Mumbai on August 11, taking the total number of arrests in the case so far to 43.

• Will Mumbai's Police Commissioner Arup Patnaik be the fall guy for Azad Maidan riot?

  Amid reports that the Maharashtra government is considering transferring him, Arup Patnaik, the city's police commissioner, has defended his handling of the riot that erupted earlier this month at Azad Maidan, where thousands had gathered to protest against the deaths of Muslims in ethnic violence in Assam. Two people had died and more than 40 were...

• Raj Thackeray's defiant show of strength included vanity van, yellow rose

  Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray today put up a big show of strength, gathering thousands of supporters at a protest rally in Mumbai. At the Azad Maidan, he demanded the resignation of state Home Minister RR Patil and Police Commissioner Arup Patnaik for the riot at the same ground earlier this month that resulted in the death o...

• Raj Thackeray says he will defy police ban to hold march before rally

  Mumbai politician Raj Thackeray says he will defy a police order and will lead his party, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), in a march from Girgaum Chowpatty to the Azad Maidan, a distance of about five kms. The police has refused permission for Mr Thackeray's march; he has been allowed to hold his rally at Azad Maidan.

• Mumbai riots: Three survivors of shooting on what they saw

  Three survivors of police firing on Saturday's riot were not even part of the Raza Academy meeting held in the Azad Maidan grounds. All three victims said they had come to the area for their own work and were caught in the middle.

• Mumbai riots: The cops who fought a merciless mob

  Bodies bruised and battered, bones broken, but spirits undaunted. At least 62 police personnel - three of them women - were injured in the violence at Azad Maidan on Saturday. The protests, which were organised by several NGOs to draw attention to the plight of a minority community in Assam and Myanmar, turned ugly within minutes.

• Have you seen the rioters who vandalised the Amar Jawan memorial?

  The Mumbai police is now using MiD DAY lensman Atul Kamble's photographs in its massive hunt for protestors who damaged the memorial at Azad Maidan dedicated to sepoys martyred in the 1857 mutiny. The men you see in these photographs struck at the heart of the nation's pride during the riots on Saturday, when they vandalised the iconic Amar Jawan J...