-The Times of India LUCKNOW: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo motu cognizance of media reports that a 14-year-old girl was detained at a police chowki and a police station in Noida for eight days. She was beaten, burnt with cigarettes and given electric shocks. Reportedly, the girl, a domestic help, was detained after her employer accused her of theft. The Commission has observed that the contents of the...
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Families want experts during postmortem
-The Times of India Tuticorin: The government order (GO) to shut down the Sterlite copper smelter unit in Tuticorin permanently and its subsequent locking down are yet to make a positive impact on the families of some of those killed in the police firing. While postmortem was performed on seven of the 13 victims, an advocate speaking for the families of five of the six remaining victims demanded the presence of...
More »Vedanta Plant at Thoothukudi to Be Shut Permanently After Deadly Protests
-TheWire.in Thirteen people were killed while protesting the pollution and health hazard caused by the Vedanta group's copper plant. Thoothukudi: Tamil Nadu deputy chief minister O. Panneerselvam asserted on May 28 that the government will take resolute steps for the permanent closure of Vedanta group’s copper plant here. “Today, the main demand of the people is that the copper plant should be permanently closed. In keeping with their demand, it is shut now....
More »First anniversary of Mandsaur firing: Villagers told to submit bonds to maintain peace -Milind Ghatwai
-The Indian Express The administration has identified nearly 1,200 people who could create trouble either because of their past record or because they are in touch with agitators. Bhopal: Days before the first anniversary of the farmers’ unrest at Mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh, during which five protesters were killed in police firing, hundreds of villagers in the area have been asked by the administration to submit bonds of “good behaviour” —...
More »Dads' drive after loss of kids -GS Mudur
-The Telegraph New Delhi: Three fathers who lost a child each to alleged medical negligence and a patients' rights group have asked the Union health ministry to establish new mechanisms to address complaints of negligence. The existing institutional mechanisms to protect patients has failed and broken down, their letter to minister J.P. Nadda and health officials on Saturday said. The parents and the rights group, the All India Drug Action Network, have sought...
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