-Outlook The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has refused to disclose communications exchanged between former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Chief Minister Narendra Modi during the 2002 Gujarat riots even after 11 years. Responding to an RTI application, the Prime Minister's Office cited section 8(1)(h) of the transparency law, which exempts information that would impede the process of investigation or apprehension or prosecution of offenders. Nearly 2,000 people were killed in the...
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Conviction rate in cases of atrocities against SC/STs low in TN -KT Sangameswaran
-The Hindu During 2008-10 it was 17.4 per cent in the State against national average of 31 per cent Chennai (Tamil Nadu): The conviction rate in cases of atrocities against SC/STs in Tamil Nadu during 2008-10 was 17.4 per cent. This is very low compared to the national average of about 31 per cent, the Union Home Ministry has submitted before the Madras High Court. The Ministry submitted this in an affidavit in response...
More »SC raps UP over Muzaffarnagar riot camp misery -Bhadra Sinha
-The Hindustan Times Coming down hard on the Uttar Pradesh government over reports that 40 children had died in its relief camps in riot-torn Muzaffarnagar, the Supreme Court on Thursday directed it to take immediate steps to ensure there were no such deaths in future, especially with winter setting in. Hindustan Times had recently, in a series of ground reports, written about sufferings and deaths in the relief camps, set up after...
More »Gujarat gets Lokayukta after a decade
-PTI GANDHINAGAR: Retired Gujarat high court judge DP Buch was on Wednesday sworn in as the state's fourth Lokayukta, a post that lay vacant for a decade and over which chief minister Narendra Modi and governor Kamla Beniwal were on a collision course for three years. Justice Buch(retd) was sworn in as the anti-corruption ombudsman at a function in Raj Bhavan by governor Beniwal in the presence of Modi and assembly Speaker...
More »HC asks lawyers to ‘keep an eye’ on homeless in their localities -Aneesha Mathur
-The Indian Express New Delhi: Faced with complaints from NGOs over the harassment of the homeless in the city at the hands of police, the Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked lawyers associated with a PIL on the issue of night shelters to "keep a vigil in their neighbourhoods" to ensure that the homeless are accommodated at nearby night shelters. With the civic agencies, Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB), Delhi government,...
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