-Outlook Guwahati: Assam has reported the highest rate of incidence of crime against children in the Northeast, though compared at the national level the rate is pretty low at 1.03 per cent of the total number of crimes registered. Assam recorded a high of 392 cases and was followed by Manipur with 104, Mizoram with 95, Meghalaya with 91 and Arunachal Pradesh with 39, according to the latest report of the National...
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Big Forensic Science Laboratory backlog hampers probes
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) at Rohini has begun a fresh round of recruitments. That may help in clearing the huge backlog of cases here which hampers investigation and delivery of justice. There were 8991 cases pending till the beginning of this year. The pendency was highest in the chemistry unit with 5433 cases. Though there are 337 sanctioned posts at FSL, a staggering 194 are...
More »Where rape is a conspiracy -Prasenjit Chowdhury
-The Hindustan Times It is really sad for Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee to accept that as per the latest figures released by the National crime Records Bureau (NCRB) West Bengal recorded the highest number of crimes against women for the second year on the trot. The NCRB statistics said West Bengal recorded 30,942 cases of crime against women in 2012 - of which 2,046 were rape cases. Senior administrative and police...
More »India sets up elaborate system to tap phone calls, e-mail
-Reuters India has launched a wide-ranging surveillance programme that will give its security agencies and even income tax officials the ability to tap directly into e-mails and phone calls without oversight by courts or parliament, several sources said. The expanded surveillance in the world's most populous democracy, which the government says will help safeguard national security, has alarmed privacy advocates at a time when allegations of massive US digital snooping beyond American...
More »Tired of hiding, Park Street 'rape victim' reveals identity, urges women to speak up
-The Indian Express Kolkata: Nearly 15 months after she was allegedly raped by five men after she stepped out of a city hotel and accepted a lift in their car, the 38-year-old woman known as the Park Street rape victim has decided to make her identity public. "I have been a rape victim, a rape survivor. Why should I be ashamed and hide my face? The criminals who raped me should hide...
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