-The Telegraph Human rights groups today claimed New Delhi had a role in allowing ex-army officer Avtar Singh to escape the country as a free trial could have allegedly unravelled the involvement of people at the “highest level” in various Murders in Jammu and Kashmir. The Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Societies (JKCCS), which includes several rights groups, today pressed for an impartial probe into the “institutional support and circumstances under...

Mention crime, and Murder and rape are the first to strike the mind. But there is another crime that arguably causes similar trauma, yet goes almost unnoticed: abduction.  The felony rose by 77% in six years, from 23,991 in 2006 to 42,580 in 2011, according to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). In comparison, Murders remained around the 34,000 mark in the corresponding period and rapes rose by 24% (from 19,348...

-The Telegraph The CBI has sought the government’s permission to prosecute two IPS officers for alleged involvement in the 2007 Nandigram police firing in which 14 persons were killed. The investigating agency has also recommended disciplinary or departmental action against nine other officers, including one from the IAS and three from the IPS. A letter dated May 23, 2012, (memo number 2242A) and undersigned by CBI deputy inspector-general Arun Bothra reached the office...

-The Hindu Under the PCR Act, 34 cases were registered in 2010 as against 10 in 2009 There has been a marked increase in crimes against people belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in Karnataka in 2010 in comparison to that in 2009, particularly in the cases booked under the Protection of Civil Rights (PCR) Act and the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Prevention of Atrocities Act. According to the ‘Crime...

-PTI Bowing to opposition demands, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today recommended a CBI probe into the killing of Ranvir Sena supremo Bramheshwar Singh. A decision to this effect was taken during a meeting Kumar had with top state police officials and home department officials at his residence this morning. State director general of police Abhayanand and principal secretary of home department Aamir Subhani also attended the meeting. "The chief minister has decided...