-The Telegraph A large segment of the protesters who travelled are Adivasis fighting for their land titles under the Forest Rights Act, 2006 The tent seemed more spacious and the winter didn’t bite as much. After spending four days on the road in a cramped tempo with 14 others, Chhagan Chaudhari, 60, extended his legs and wrapped himself with a thick blanket as he prepared to sleep on December 25 night in...
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Comprehensive reforms, not just CCTVs, can end custodial ToRture -Aishwarya Mohanty and Neetika Vishwanath
-The Indian Express The realities of ToRture and its prosecution in India would temper our expectations from this one development. The Supreme Court needs to ensure robust implementation of its order and simultaneously plug the gaps so that incidents of ToRture are curtailed. In a bid to curb ToRture, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court recently mandated that CCTV cameras be installed in police stations and offices of other investigative agencies....
More »Poor account for 71% of custodial deaths in India
-The Hindu Celebrities or rich people often get reprieve by claiming to suffer from kleptomania, says anti-ToRture group Data culled from the annual reports of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) from 1996-97 to 2017-18 have revealed that 71.58% of the custodial deaths in India were of people from poor or marginalised sections of society, said a statement by an anti-ToRture group issued on Thursday to mark the United Nations Human Rights...
More »Hathras gangrape is a reminder that no party really cares about women or Dalits -Shashi Deshpande
-Scroll.in Each case of rape seems to bring out a different kind of cruelty that lies latent within us. The Hathras gangrape has reminded us yet again of the cruelty that lies latent within us. It tells us how a woman’s body is used as a battlefield, used to punish her, her family and her community, or used for revenge. Cruelty, like grief, can never be quantified, but each case of rape, indeed...
More »Sattankulam custodial deaths | Police ToRtured Jayaraj and Benicks knowing it will result in death, says CBI charge sheet -B Tilak Chandar
-The Hindu Charge sheet says injuries were caused at station. Madurai: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), in its charge sheet against the nine policemen accused in the Sattankulam custodial death case, said trader P. Jayaraj and his son J. Benicks were subjected to brutal ToRture by the policemen, knowing well that it was sufficient to cause their death. The expert opinion received from the Central Forensic Science LaboraToRy (CFSL), New Delhi, established...
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