-The Hindu In yet another instance of highhandedness and inhuman behaviour, the Uttar Pradesh police severely beat up the three-year-old daughter of an under-trial prisoner just because he took the child in his arms. He was trying to pacify the child, who had started crying when the police took him intocustody at the court premises. Upset with the media report regarding the incident, the National Human Rights Commission, which suo motu took...
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Tribals were paraded nude: Odisha police
-New Indian Express The SP of Sundergarh district of Odisha has admitted before the NHRC that a tribal senior citizen and three women were forced to walk nude in a procession to all the nearby hamlets of Kiralaga, a village under Talsara police station.The SP submitted his report after the NHRC issued notice to the DGP on a petition filed by Supreme Court lawyer and rights activist Radhakanta Tripathy in this...
More »Fixing accountability for unlawful killings in India-Divya Trivedi
-The Hindu Hundred and nine civilian deaths occurred due to police firing in 2011, according to National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). Disproportionate use of force during demonstrations caused many deaths and at least 100 deaths were caused due to excessive use of force against demonstrators in Jammu and Kashmir in 2010. According to the NHRC, 2,560 deaths during encounters with police were reported between 1993 and 2008. Of this, 1,224 cases...
More »NHRC gives Rs 5 lakh to encounter victim's kin
-The Indian Express Ghuwati: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has asked the Assam government to pay a compensation of Rs 5 lakh to the next of kin of one Rajib Basumatary of Doimoguri village in Sonitpur district, who was killed in an encounter between suspected NDFB militants and a joint patrol of Assam Police and CRPF personnel in June 2010. While the police claimed that Rajib was killed when it had...
More »Make the CBI accountable also to the court, a Parliament committee and NHRC
-The Economic Times The Supreme Court has pulled up the CBI for misleading it on whether the agency had shared its status report with the government. Indeed, there can be no excuse for misrepresenting facts to the apex court. The Additional Solicitor General who told the court something that he knew to his personal knowledge to be false and the Attorney General who did not make amends must both go. The...
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