Rohtak: Children living at a shelter run by an NGO here were sexually abused, beaten, molested and made to work as labourers on farms and construction sites, a raid by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights has uncovered. The girls recounted tales of horror during the raid on Wednesday night at the shelter run by NGO Bharat Vikas Sangh, which won a Haryana state award for women's empowerment in...
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Press Council dismisses complaint against TOI
-The Times of India The Press Council of India, headed by retired Supreme Court judge, Markandey Katju, has dismissed a complaint filed against The Times of India by a senior Haryana IPS officer, Anil Dawra, who is presently posted as state ADGP (training). The TOI on January 28, 2010 had published a story "IG let off easily in Sarita case," on the basis of an RTI query. Sarita was allegedly raped by...
More »Dubbed terror mastermind without any proof-Indranil Basu
At the age of 18, he had allegedly planted as many as 28 bombs in Delhi and NCR, that too single-handedly in all but one instance. Mohammad Amir Khan had, therefore, been implicated in 19 cases, charged with serious offences such as murder and waging war against the government. Yet, after spending 14 years in jail, he was released last month after being acquitted in all but two cases. Though the...
More »Charged with terror, damned by aliases by Vidya Subrahmaniam
Mohammad Aamir had just turned 18, when one February day in 1998, he was ambushed by a police van. A month later, he found himself thrown against the cold, forbidding walls of a prison cell in the capital's Tihar jail. The charges were murder, terrorism and waging war against the nation. Aamir, released in January this year after 14 years, was named the main accused in 20 low-intensity bomb blasts executed...
More »Farmer Sitting on Protest Against Land Acquisition Dies
-Outlook A farmer sitting on a dharna along with other peasants to protest acquisition of land for the proposed nuclear power plant in the district died today at PGIMS, Rohtak. Ishwar Singh Siwach, a Gorakhpur village farmer, was shifted from the Civil Hospital, Fatehabad, to Rohtak last evening in a serious condition, police said. He died this morning, they said. The 60-year-old farmer was taken ill when he was sitting on the dharna...
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