-The Indian Express A group of teachers at Jamia Milia Islamia University has put together a compilation of terror cases that failed to hold up in court, all of these built by the Delhi Police Special Cell around youths they had arrested and described as terrorists. Titled “Framed, Damned and Acquitted: Dossiers of a Very Special Cell” and compiled from court judgments and media reports, the study by the Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity...
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Ex-Gujarat minister Amit Shah charged in fake encounter case
-The Times of India The CBI on Tuesday named former Gujarat minister of state for home Amit Shah and over half a dozen IPS officers, including former CID (crime) chief OP Mathur, as accused in the Tulsiram Prajapati fake encounter case of 2006. They were among the 20 people named in the CBI chargesheet. Considered to be one of the favourite cops of chief minister Narendra Modi, Mathur and former state police...
More »Anti-bribery law to hit pvt sector-Aloke Tikku
-The Hindustan Times The government has shielded its officials from harassment by anti-corruption sleuths but left the private sector at the mercy of the police under a proposed anti-bribery law targeting the private sector. The home ministry’s proposed amendment to the Indian Penal Code (IPC) criminalises bribery amongst individuals, trusts and firms and prescribes a maximum jail of 7 years for the guilty. But it gives the police a free hand to...
More »Cop gets jail for not filing accurate FIR-Parimal Dabhi
-The Indian Express Ahmedabad: Manubhai Karsanbhai Patel, a retired policeman who was the first investigating officer in the Dipda Darwaza massacre case, on Monday became the first policeman to be convicted and sentenced in any of the post-Godhra riot cases. Patel was charged with not filing an accurate FIR, not reporting that 11 people had gone missing on the day of the riot and not protecting evidence of the massacre. He was...
More »Male murder victims outnumber women in Delhi-Dwaipayan Ghosh
-The Times of India For a city notorious for its crimes against women, this would come as a surprise - the number of women killed in Delhi has been declining in the past six years while there has been a steady rise in murders against men. Last year, the number of men killed in the city was more than four times higher than the women murdered. In 2006, male murder victims were...
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