-The Times of India AHMEDABAD: The CBI has submitted proof of a high-level meeting between top government functionaries and cops involved in the IshratJahan fake encounter case held to sabotage investigations in the case. Revelations about this meeting were made by suspended IPS officer G L Singhal, an accused in the case who is now out on default bail. Singhal had recorded the meeting secretly and has submitted the audio recording to...
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Minister wants special panel on terror cases against Muslims -Subodh Ghildiyal
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Union minority affairs minister Rahman Khan wants the government to form an all-powerful taskforce to monitor and review terror cases against Muslims, arguing that it is needed to ensure justice for "innocent Muslim youth" languishing in jails after being framed in terror cases. Khan cited the example of the UK which, he said, has formed a task force under Prime Minister David Cameron to ensure there...
More »An overdue cleansing has begun -Soli J Sorabjee
-The Indian Express The Supreme Court has delivered a sterling judgment on convicted legislators. It could have gone further Democracy is a basic feature of our Constitution. The entry of people with colourful criminal antecedents in Parliament or statelegislatures is a menace to our democracy. The figures for criminals in Parliament and state legislatures are staggering. They touch 30 per cent of the members in the Lok Sabha and 31 per cent...
More »Bonding and Fantasy-Bhaswati Chakravorty
-The Telegraph Has rape become an inspiring act? Protest, debate, anger, mutual blame, marches, mob violence are spilling out of streets and screens, yet the rape count continues to rise relentlessly, almost as if the outrage over one incident is inciting the next one. Such a narrative is to an extent encouraged by the way incidents are reported in newspapers and television, but the facts are inescapable, and everybody, including the...
More »Court verdict embarrasses Mamata government over newspapers in libraries -Monideepa Banerjie and Abhinav Bhatt
-NDTV A year and a half after Mamata Banerjee's government ordered the removal of most English-language newspapers from all state run libraries, the Calcutta High Court has undone the decision. The court today ruled that the most-circulated newspapers in West Bengal, which include The Telegraph and Anand Bazar Patrika, must be made available for readers. In March, the government had banned all English dailies and several other vernacular ones from more than 2000...
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