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SIT shielding Modi from prosecution: Ex-DGP

-PTI   Former Gujarat DGP, RB Sreekumar on Thursday slammed the Supreme Court-appointed special investigation team (SIT) for allegedly taking a pro-Narendra Modi line in the probe into the 2002 riots cases, to shield him from the prosecution. In an open letter to the people, Sreekumar, who headed the State Intelligence Bureau (SIB) during the riots period, has also made public his first statement before the SIT in May 2008.   He had then talked...

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7 Maoists surrender in Chhattisgarh by Aman Sethi

Seven members of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist) surrendered in Chhattisgarh's Kanker district on Monday — a sign, police officers say, that a new policy of rapprochement with rebel cadres is gradually paying dividends. Five of the seven surrendered Maoists are from the Rowghat Area Committee, of which three are relatively senior commanders. Of the remaining two, Sunil alias Rajesh Kumar is a member of the East Bastar Divisional...

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Supreme Court orders probe into all fake encounters in Gujarat by J Venkatesan

The reference is to incidents that occurred during 2002-06 Dealing a blow to the Narendra Modi government in Gujarat, the Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Monitoring Authority (MA) headed by M.B. Shah, a retired Supreme Court judge, to probe all fake encounter deaths in the State from 2002 to 2006. A Bench of Justices Aftab Alam and C.K. Prasad passed the order on two petitions filed by Javed Akthar, B.G. Varghese...

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A Black Ledger by Debarshi Dasgupta

Custodial deaths on the rise, says report Deaths in Police Custody The 10 Worst States Maharashtra - 250 Uttar Pradesh - 174 Gujarat - 134 Andhra Pradesh - 109 West Bengal - 98 Tamil Nadu - 95 Assam - 84 Karnataka - 67 Punjab - 57 Madhya Pradesh - 55 Haryana - 45 *** Tamirul Haq had just stepped out to buy some cigarettes, and probably told his family he’d be back soon. But the 42-year-old from Bengal’s North Dinajpur district never returned home. On...

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Claims, counter-claims on Kishenji killing by Ananya Dutta & Shiv Sahay Singh

Varavara Rao says it was a fake encounter; CRPF terms it an ‘absolutely clean operation' A day after Communist Party of India (Maoist) Polit Bureau member Koteshwara Rao alias Kishenji was gunned down by the joint security forces in the Burisole forest in Paschim Medinipur district, Maoist sympathisers and security forces on Friday traded allegations and came out with counter-claims on whether he was killed in a “fake encounter.”  While revolutionary poet...

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