-PTI New Delhi: The Central Information Commission has directed the Bureau of Immigration, an agency exempted from RTI Act disclosures, to give a person details of his travel as he needed it for defence in penal proceedings that landed him in jail. The CIC underlined that any impediment to a person's self-defence would be a breach of human rights. The case pertains to RTI applicant M. Dinesh, who had sought information related to...
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For Haryana Police, the Holy Cow Is an Excuse for Extra-Judicial Killings -Neha Dixit
-TheWire.in The Wire meets families of 16 people who lost their lives in extra-judicial killings by the Police on the suspicion of smuggling cows in the Mewat region of Haryana. Nuh (Haryana): On the wintry night of December 6, 2017, as Shareef lay on the bed in his courtyard in Salaheri village in Nuh, flashes of memory from 25 years ago kept disrupting his sleep. He recalled how his friend Aarif was...
More »Police being politicised, says former DGP
-The Hindu A report on the status of policing in India says that Sikhs, mainly in Punjab reported the highest levels of fear of the Police among religious communities. Highlighting the politicisation of Police, former Uttar Pradesh DGP Prakash Singh said during the Ayodhya agitation, he was removed as the Police chief for a brief period and “the Police was pulverised” as political masters didn’t want them to raise their little finger. The...
More »Muslims Representation in Police Low, Number of Prisoners Relatively High -Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar
-TheWire.in A report points at how a large number of Muslims feel they are implicated in terrorism cases, Dalits for petty crimes, and Adivasis for being Maoists. Muslim representation in the Police force remains abysmally low whereas the community continues to have a disproportionately high representation in prisons, a report brought out by Common Cause and the Lokniti-Programme for Comparative Democracy at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) has...
More »Nearly 44% Indians reported significant fear of the Police or torture in some form, shows a new report on performance of Police in different states
-Press Release of Status of Policing in India Report 2018, dated 9th May, 2018 New Delhi: Common Cause and Lokniti Programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), launched India’s first Status of Policing in India Report (SPIR 2018) at the India Habitat Centre today. The release was followed by a panel discussion on “People-Centric Policing and the Rule of Law.” The participants of the panel discussion were former...
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