-Frontline Changing the way you count changes the count. THE total number of farmer suicides in the country since 1995 crossed the 3,00,000-mark in 2014. However, the 2014 data are not comparable with 19 earlier years of farm suicide data. This is because of major changes in the methodology of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). With the new parameters, the number of farmer suicides in 2014 falls to 5,650. That is...
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Set up human rights court in each district: SC -Amit Anand Choudhary
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: In order to ensure speedy trial in cases of human rights violations, the Supreme Court has asked all the states to set up special courts in each district. It has also directed the state governments to install CCTV cameras in all prisons, apart from police stations, within one year to keep an eye on activities which may lead to human rights violations of inmates. "With regard...
More »A database of RTI martyrs in the pipeline
A long-pending demand of civil society activists and NGOs, who are campaigning for probity, accountability, and transparency in public life, is going to be fulfilled soon. A welcome move has been made by the Government to enumerate and publish data on crimes committed against media persons, Right to Information activists, and whistleblowers in the forthcoming edition of Crime in India, which is published annually by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB)...
More »Over 3,000 ‘missing’ kids found at Delhi railway stations in 3yrs -Prawesh Lama
-Hindustan Times New Delhi: For lakhs of travellers, the New Delhi and Old Delhi railway stations may be just dots on the city’s map, but for thousands of children, they are ‘home.’ It is here where the police find most of the children who go missing. As per records, at least 3,321 children were rescued from the two stations in the last three years. This year till June, the railway police rescued...
More »In a first, 109 sent to jail for urinating in public -Arvind Chauhan
-The Times of India Agra: In an unprecedented cleanliness drive, and perhaps, for the first time in India, Government Railway Police of Agra division has sent 109 persons to jail for 24 hours after they were found urinating on the railway property, including platform, tracks parking lot. They were later released after paying a fine ranging from Rs 100 to Rs 500 depending on the gravity of the act of creating...
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