-IANS New Delhi: The Election Commission (EC) should treat social media like any other media and all rules that apply to the media during the model code of conduct should also apply to social media, former Chief Election Commissioner S.Y. Quraishi said on Friday. Quraishi was speaking at an event where a group of former bureaucrats and organisations, like Common Cause, Free Internet Foundation, Association for Democratic Reforms and Free Software Movement...
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Where prejudice is crime -Vrinda Grover
-The Indian Express Hashimpura verdict highlights the bias within police against religious minorities. It is a chilling coincidence that on October 31, a date that marks the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1984 and the unleashing of state-engineered violence against the Sikhs, the Delhi High Court held 16 policemen of the 41st Battalion of UP Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) guilty of “the targeted killing by armed forces of the unarmed,...
More »Why can't Yogi Adityanath be prosecuted for hate speech, Supreme Court asks UP govt
-Hindustan Times Adityanath was an MP from Gorakhpur when he allegedly gave an inflammatory speech outside the town’s railway station. New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Uttar Pradesh government to explain why chief minister Yogi Adityanath should not be prosecuted in a case involving an alleged hate speech he had delivered before the 2007 Gorakhpur riots. A bench of chief justice of India Dipak Misra, and justices AM Khanwilkar and...
More »As lynchings rise, govt tells WhatsApp to curb rumours
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Looking to clamp down on rumours that have led to lynching of innocents on suspicion of child lifting, the government on Tuesday asked Facebook-owned instant messenger WhatsApp to take urgent steps to prevent spread of “irresponsible and explosive messages” on its platform. The warning comes at a time when there have been repeated cases of violence provoked by posts circulated on popular messaging apps where...
More »Communal incidents rose 17% last year from 2016 -Bharti Jain
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Communal incidents across the country rose to 822 last year from 703 in 2016, reversing the falling trend seen in the preceding year. As many as 111 persons were killed and 2,384 injured due to communal violence in 2017, up from 86 killed and 2,321 injured in 2016. In 2016, communal incidents were down from the levels seen in 2015 (751). The death toll in 2017...
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