-ThePrint.in Under NSA, a person need not be informed of charges for 10 days, can be detained without charge for up to 12 months and doesn’t get a lawyer. New Delhi: The Lieutenant Governor of Delhi late Friday passed an order conferring the Commissioner of Police with the power to detain under the draconian National Security Act (NSA) for a period of three months — between 19 January and 18 April. This...
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Women protesters are taking to the streets en masse to fight the CAA and Police brutality -Anuradha Raman
-The Hindu They are homemakers and grandmothers, doctors and lawyers, students and teachers. They are all women and they have come out of their homes in massive numbers to protest the CAA. It’s our country, they say. It’s our children’s country. And nobody can take that away from us Women. Suddenly, they are visible. Great-grandmothers, grandmothers, mothers, teenagers, baby girls. They have slowly but surely reclaimed a corner of a public ground...
More »Why are people on streets? Delhi judge tells it like it is
-The Telegraph/ PTI Sessions judge Kamini Lau's comment in focus A court has said people are out on the streets as what should have been said inside Parliament was “not said”. Additional sessions judge Kamini Lau made the observation during the bail hearing of Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad, who was arrested during a recent rally in old Delhi against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA). Azad has a constitutional right to protest and Delhi...
More »With 4,322 rape cases reported in 2018, 12 rapes take place daily in UP
-Caravandaily.com/ ANI LUCKNOW – With the high crime rates, 12 rape cases were reported everyday in Uttar Pradesh recording 4,322 incidents in 2018. According to the annual report of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), a case of rape is registered with the Uttar Pradesh Police every two hours while crime against a child is reported every 90 minutes in the state. The state also recorded 59,445 crimes against women with 162 being...
More »Eight years in bonded labour, tribals recall horror, now hope for new life, homes -Kavitha Iyer
-The Indian Express For eight years, Kantabai Jadhav was among 14 tribal men and women, and eight children, who lived as bonded labourers working on farms, a cowshed and a rice mill just 120 km from Mumbai in Dhamane village of Pune’s Maval taluka. Ahmednagar, Pune: “They would call us dogs, and other bad words for women… There was no cooking oil, nor any vegetables, ever. There was dried fish and foodgrain...
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