The people who uncovered the fact liken it to "encountering a mass grave of people who do not matter" in India's seat of power: At least 10 homeless people are dying on the streets of Delhi every day, the rate peaking as the summer rolls on. After a six-month examination of official records at crematoria, police stations and graveyards across India's richest city, Smita Jacob and Asghar Sharif, analysts with an...
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Gang abducting minors for prostitution busted
A gang that kidnapped minor girls to force them into prostitution has been detected at the intervention of the Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights. Seven people have been arrested for abduction and child prostitution and four minor girls, who had been kidnapped from Sultanpuri in Delhi, have been rescued. On taking up investigations into the case, the DCPCR found that young girls were kidnapped from Delhi's Sultanpuri area in...
More »Girl marries within caste, killed for honour
In yet another case of honour killing, a girl was murdered allegedly by her father and brother after she married against their wishes. 18-year-old Khamosh married 21-year-old Sumat, who belonged to the same caste. The match was opposed by her family. Khamosh was strangled to death by her father Ramesh Chand and brother Ankush on April 3 at Nagla Kandwara village in Baghpat district, Deputy Superintendent of Police Rajpal Singh...
More »Maharashtra corruption buster killed by Deepak Lokhande
THE MURDER of Right to Information ( RTI) activist Dattatray Patil at Ichalkaranji in Maharashtra has left the community worried, which wants the state government to take some firm action. This is the third such incident in the state where RTI activists were either killed or threatened with dire consequences after their exposes made local politicians uncomfortable. Unidentified assailants threw chilli powder on Patils face before stabbing him to death last week....
More »HC asks CBI to probe Rizwanur's death again
The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday asked the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to conduct a fresh probe into the death of Muslim youth Rizwanur Rahman, whose mysterious death after his marriage with the daughter of a rich Hindu businessman in 2007 had sparked widespread outrage. The court, acting on a complaint filed by Rizwanur's brother Rukbanur Rahman, asked the CBI to conduct a fresh probe by starting a murder case. A...
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