Fortified Northeast Delhi crawls to normalcy amid uneasy calm over future

The situation in northeast Delhi is slowly returning to normalcy after a spate of communal violence left 42 people dead and over 200 injured as the government begins efforts to rehabilitate those affected. As people gingerly stepped out for work and opened shops and other establishments in northeast Delhi, anxiety escalated outside the Guru Teg Bahadur (GTB) hospital where people waited outside the mortuary to receive the bodies of their loved ones.

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal during the day said that the Delhi government has set up nine shelters for the riot-affected people and will start distributing Rs 25,000 in