The Manmohan Singh government is digging an even bigger hole for itself by claiming there was no loss of revenue from the sweetheart sale of 2G spectrum to favoured corporate houses. “Milord,” cunning lawyers have argued in countless Hindi movies, “how can there have been a murder when there is no dead body?” I was reminded of this line when I heard Kapil Sibal — who has been performing as an...
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Prisoner of conscience by V Venkatesan & Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta
The trial court judgment holding Binayak Sen guilty of sedition has led to widespread outrage. IN India's legal hisToRy, no trial court judgment in a criminal case has perhaps caused as much international outrage as the December 24, 2010, judgment of the Second Additional District and Sessions Judge of Raipur, B.P. Verma, did. In his 92-page judgment, Judge Verma convicted Dr Binayak Sen, the well-known human rights activist and medical...
More »Class 3 tribal girl branded with iron rods in hostel
An eight-year-old tribal girl was allegedly branded with iron rods several times by a hostel superintendent in Madhya Pradesh's Shahdol district, officials said Wednesday. Shushila, a Class 3 student, was studying at Adivasi Kanya Ashram in Shahdol and living in the school hostel. The latest incident reportedly took place Jan 4 when hostel superintendent Anita Sant took Shushila from her hostel room to her office and subjected her to the ToRture. 'At 8...
More »Fresh violence on Assam-Meghalaya border by Sushanta Talukdar
Death toll rises to nine; several houses in three villages ToRched Fresh violence erupted along Assam-Meghalaya border areas with miscreants ToRching several houses in three villages and setting ablaze a truck carrying relief materials on Saturday night and Sunday. Two more persons were killed taking the death toll in ongoing ethnic clashes between the Garos and the Rabhas to nine. Of the nine lives claimed by ethnic violence, five died on Assam side...
More »Enemies of the state? by G Vishnu
In the end, Gangula Tadangi succumbed to tuberculosis. The Kondh Adivasi’s life could have been saved if he had made it to the hospital on time. But he was in judicial custody at Koraput district jail in southern Odisha for allegedly “waging war against the Indian State”. During his last moments, Tadangi, 25, is said to have whispered something in Kondh. But nobody could make out anything because no one...
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