-PTI Crimes against women in trains have been on the rise despite deployment of security personnel by the Railways, with more than 200 cases, including rape, molestation and misbehaviour, reported last year. A total 210 such cases were registered in 2012 against 127 cases in 2011. According to Railway Ministry data, while molestation cases in trains have gone up from 52 in 2010 to 72 in 2011, the number touched 119 in...
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A shootout and many smoking guns-Rahul Tripathi & Ujjwala Nayudu
-The Indian Express With the CBI making its first Arrests in the Ishrat Jahan case, Ujjwala Nayudu and Rahul Tripathi look at past investigations, all of which have punctured holes in the Gujarat Police’s encounter theory When were Ishrat Jahan and three others killed? Was it in a police encounter on June 15, 2004, as the Gujarat Police’s records show, or a day earlier, on the evening of June 14, as subsequent...
More »Jostling for justice -Suvojit Bagchi
-The Hindu Hundreds of undertrials languish in overcrowded south Chhattisgarh prisons even as their trial proceeds sluggishly, says an RTI reply With most information regarding prisons closely guarded in the country, in conflict zones — some north-eastern States, Kashmir or Chhattisgarh — it is even more so. The only information about prisons that percolates to public space is about how inmates are becoming master painters, singers or dance drama designers. While those...
More »We Have Created Path for Permanent Development: UP CM
-Outlook Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, who today completed one year in office, claimed that his government has created 'path for permanent development' of the state and people's faith in democracy has increased. "We can claim that in the last one year we have created path for the permanent development of the state. The government has worked in every sector and taken the state forward," Akhilesh said here on the...
More »MP: Panchayat Secy Held for Allegedly Accepting Bribe
-Outlook Indore: Lokayukta Police today Arrested a village panchayat secretary for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 3,000 from a physically handicapped man in exchange of financial aid to him under Indira Awas Yojana scheme. Panchayat secretary of Tigariya village, Dilip Patel was Arrested in Khandwa district on complaint of Vinod Shankarlal, Lokayukta police said. Shankarlal was set to get Rs 45,000 under IAY to construct a house, out of which he had...
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