-The Indian Express ToRture is an endemic characteristic of Indian policing. A commitment to eradicating it requires the police force as a whole to have zero tolerance for the practice besides a specific anti-ToRture law The home minister’s recent pronouncement that the days of third-degree ToRture are gone is extraordinarily welcome. His announcement is as much a signal to the security forces to lay off this practice as it is an acknowledgment...
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Leaning on the states -M Govinda Rao
-The Indian Express Defence is a national public good. It is the primary responsibility of the Centre. The amendment to the terms of reference (ToR) issued to the Fifteenth Finance Commission asking it to examine “..a separate mechanism for funding of defence and internal security ought to be set up and if so, how such a mechanism could be operationalised,” has triggered some suggestions on the need to have a relook...
More »Haryana police brutally ToRtured nearly 50% of jail inmates, finds survey -Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar
-TheWire.in Women, the report has found, would be molested and threatened with rape by male personnel. Trigger warning: The article contains graphic descriptions of physical and sexual ToRture which might be triggering to survivors. Electric shocks, bricks hung from private parts, threatened with rape, sexually assaulted, hung naked, hung upside down — these are some of the methods that Haryana Police has been undertaking in dealing with prisoners, both men and women, a...
More »89% of people excluded from Assam NRC suffering from mental ToRture, finds survey
-The Hindu They are unable to cope with the fear of deportation, separation from family members, it says. Guwahati: About 89% of the more than 41 lakh people excluded from Assam’s National Register of Citizens (NRC) have been suffering from extreme mental ToRture because of the fear of being marked as a foreigner and its consequences, a survey by the National Campaign Against ToRture (NCAT) has revealed. The NCAT had conducted a field...
More »The most stressed district courts in India -Sriharsha Devulapalli, Riday Chokshi and Vishnu Padmanabhan
-Livemint.com Bihar, UP and Odisha account for the bulk of highly-stressed district courts, shows an analysis based on parameters including pendency rate, infra deficit It is often said that in court cases in India, the process itself is the punishment. However, how ToRturous and long-drawn this process can be varies dramatically across the courts of the country, a Mint analysis of district-wise court data suggests. The analysis shows that Bihar, Uttar Pradesh (UP)...
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