-The Indian Express Mumbai: Over 21 per cent of undertrials in the country in 2012 were Muslims. However, members of the community comprised only 17.75 per cent of the convicts, reveals analysis of prison data released by National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). This suggests a large number of Arrested Muslims are released by the courts. The inverse is true of all other communities. Hindus comprised 69.92 per cent of undertrials and 71.35 per cent...

Bihar Government's programme of distributing bicycles to school girls may be a modest intervention but is leading to big changes. A new research-based paper, brought out in August 2013, corroborates the success of the programme and testifies that it is leading to improved school enrollment of girls and Arresting their dropout rates (See links below to read full paper and earlier studies on the subject).   Based on econometric and statistical models,...

-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Supreme Court today warned Bengal and Andhra Pradesh with "consequences" if they failed to respond to an eight-month-old directive relating to a law that has led to Arrests over "objectionable" Internet posts. On January 19, the court had asked all states and Union territories to respond to a central advisory that said no Arrests should be made under Section 66A of the Information Technology Act without sanction...

-The Indian Express Even as the Samajwadi government in Uttar Pradesh draws flak for delaying the Arrest of politicians who allegedly fomented trouble ahead of the Muzaffarnagar riots, the Association of Democratic Research has found that 11 MPs and 26 MLAs across the country have been accused of attempting to whip up religious sentiments or wilfully damaging places of worship. The figures were collated after analysing affidavits submitted by candidates at...

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: After doggedly turning down arguments for having a graded response to crimes by juveniles, depending on the gravity of their crime and the juvenile's age, the government is finally coming around to the view the juveniles above 16 years involved in heinous crimes, like murder or gang rape, should be tried as adults under the Indian Penal Code. The change in the outlook of the women...