-The Telegraph   The Supreme Court today slammed army authorities for stalling a criminal case initiated by the CBI against five officers involved in an alleged fake encounter in Jammu and Kashmir. “You don’t want to take over the case and initiate court-martial proceedings against them. You don’t allow the criminal justice system to go ahead,” the court said. “The victims cannot be remedy-less.” The court’s observations came after the counsel for the officers,...

—PTI For the first time in the two-decade long turmoil in Jammu and Kashmir, a Valley-based human rights group has admitted that Militants were responsible for more enforced disappearances than security forces. Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP), an organisation seeking the whereabouts of missing persons in the State, said of the 132 cases it has documented, militant groups were responsible for 24 cases of enforced disappearances compared to 22 by...

The first judgment in a 2002 riots case and the SIT report on the Ishrat Jahan killing go against the Gujarat government. THE verdict in a crucial and long-running case involving a massacre and the investigation report in another case, of alleged encounter killings, both delivered in November, give hope to victims of the 2002 pogrom in Gujarat that they will get justice, even if delayed. In the first case, the special...

Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Monday said the Centre and the Assam government would sign a peace accord with the militant outfit of the hill district Karbi Anglong — United Peoples Democratic Solidarity (UPDS) in Delhi on November 25. The UPDS was formed in 1999 in a merger of the erstwhile Karbi People's Front (KPF) and Karbi National Volunteers (KNV) . The UPDS entered into a ceasefire agreement with the...

-BBC    Seven men who were held in connection with a blast in the Indian state of Maharashtra have been released on bail, five years after they were arrested. The blast in Malegaon town killed 37 people and injured 125 others. Investigating agencies did not oppose the bail pleas of the seven Muslim men after a Hindu holy man was arrested last year in connection with the blast. Swami Aseemanand allegedly confessed to the bombings,...