-The Indian Express Lucknow: Four Dalit farmers, who were missing since April 30, were found murdered in Asmauli police station area of Sambhal district on Wednesday. The bodies were found buried in two trenches in a field. The bodies bore injury marks caused by sticks. The postmortem report is awaited to ascertain the exact reason of death, said Moradabad Range DIG Amrendra Kumar Sengar. The victims were identified as Vijay Singh (43), his...
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Officer fined for not divulging RTI info -Pramila Krishnan
-Deccan Chronicle Chennai: A teacher who appeared for the Teacher Eligibility Test sued the TRB (Teacher Recruitment Board) for causing severe mental agony to him by not giving correct answers in the RTI reply for three questions which appeared in the exam. The court ordered the TRB official to pay Rs 5,000 as compensation to the litigant. N. Arasakumaran of Karur filed a complaint with the Karur consumer court in December...
More »The responsibility to protect -Anjali Bhardwaj and Shekhar Singh
-The Indian Express A sound whistleblowers' protection law is long awaited. It languishes in Parliament at the system's peril Nandi Singh, a resident of a remote village in Assam, was brutally attacked with axes in September 2012 as a result of a complaint filed by him regarding irregularities in the functioning of fair price shops supplying rations under the public distribution system. He succumbed to his injuries on the way to the...
More »200 farmers detained for 6 hours -Vandana Keelor
-The Times of India GREATER NOIDA: Nearly 200 farmers , many of them partly clothed, courted arrest on Yamuna Expressway . The farmers planned to protest before Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at theAsian Development Bank (ADB) summit in Greater Noida on Saturday . The agitators , who were on their way to the Expo Mart , were intercepted and taken to the police lines . The protesters alleged that the cops...
More »Spies of Punjab, ‘shown steps of gold’-Chander Suta Dogra
-The Hindu Chandigarh: For one Sarabjit Singh, whose death brought politicians to his funeral and financial assistance for his family, the Punjab countryside is dotted with scores of men knocking on the doors of courts seeking compensation for the years many of them spent in Pakistani jails, and recognition of their services as spies for India. Neither the government nor his family has ever acknowledged that Sarabjit - who died this week...
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